tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128271396089958050.post929737609642617102..comments2024-03-08T21:37:38.443-08:00Comments on VinoFictions: AlcoholThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07322028233207741737noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128271396089958050.post-20365731550856031812007-08-04T10:03:00.000-07:002007-08-04T10:03:00.000-07:00Jack,You must have missed the following paragraph:...Jack,<BR/><BR/>You must have missed the following paragraph:<BR/>"To me, too much alcohol interrupts most food pairing. There are of course exceptions: Port and Madeira come to mind. But I am talking about table wine and dinner."<BR/><BR/>Like Sherry, Sercial, Verdelho, Bual, and Malmsey Madeira are produced from white grapes.<BR/><BR/>In any case, fortified wines are not considered table wines.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322028233207741737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128271396089958050.post-87953460031567713832007-08-03T23:41:00.000-07:002007-08-03T23:41:00.000-07:00Perhaps "High alcohol wines" should really be writ...Perhaps "High alcohol wines" should really be written as "High alcohol red wines". High alcohol white wines, such as sake and sherry, certainly can compliment food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128271396089958050.post-67743478237648971582007-08-01T08:58:00.000-07:002007-08-01T08:58:00.000-07:00Jay,I am sure that when you drink wine sans food, ...Jay,<BR/><BR/>I am sure that when you drink wine sans food, you enjoy the wine, but I don't think that was Dunn's point.<BR/><BR/>My point is that high alcohol interrupts food on my palate--no value judgment about not having food with wine, although I do think that is the better of the two wine-consuming choices.<BR/><BR/>In fact, there are some wines, good on their own, that believe should not be ruined by a meal--provided their alcohol content doesn't ruin the consumer of same.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322028233207741737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128271396089958050.post-61133576054559921832007-08-01T07:16:00.000-07:002007-08-01T07:16:00.000-07:00TP - Although you may empathiize with the followin...TP - Although you may empathiize with the following sentiments, I've encountered etiquette 'jihadists' who blanch at such prospects. At the risk of being tagged as a food-plus-wine flexitarian who pleads the fifth, there seem to be many reasons why people have elected to taste wines, for eons, sans cuisine. As your thought-provoking blog affirms: “There was a time when a cup of espresso or cappuccino hit the spot and was also hard to find in America. - Not any more.” Worse still, when I earnestly acknowledged looking forward to some wine gems without food within a notorious chatroom elsewhere, one renowned wine/food match-maker/culture czar from “LA” idiotically suggested that I ought to improve my cuisine?!?! (My girlfriend actually is an outstanding, self-taught chef thank you very much Sir idiot!) Simply put, most of us have experienced that proverbial 'cheese enhancing' confounding influence during various winedoms, so is it really that absurd for food-plus-wine flexitarians to forego such confounders with, say, a post-prandial Lafite '96 in a decade or three?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com