Food You Can't Pair With Wines

Pairing your wine with food creates an extra balance between the characteristics of a wine and the components of a dish. However, there are certain foods that you should avoid as they make the wine, even the best wines, taste unpleasant. Below are the foods that you should not pair with wines.

Artichokes

First off, we have the artichokes. This vegetable is not ideal with wines as it contains cynarine, a compound that makes this drink taste a bit sweeter than it really is. It also inhibits you from experiencing bitterness, acidity, and saltiness.

Asparagus

Contains sulfurous compounds, the asparagus can mimic the taste of a wine fault, while its green, herbaceous flavor is introduced by the high levels of chlorophyll found in this vegetable. It is hard to find a good wine that can pair well with asparagus.

Blue cheese

Of all the types of cheese that you can pair easily with wines, the blue cheese isn’t among them. Even the best sommeliers are having issues pairing blue cheese and all other blue-veined cheeses with wines. That’s because blue cheese typically overpowers most wines that go well with cheese.

Brussels sprouts

This cruciferous vegetable has earthy and sulfurous flavors that pose some hurdles that even the best of the best sommeliers can’t surmount. That's because the Brussels sprouts contain a compound called organosulfur that makes a wine taste unpleasant.

Chocolates

You should never pair wine with chocolates as it adds a bit of sensation to your palate. The wine scrapes the sweetness and fattiness from your palate when you finish this taste with a dry red wine, leaving harsh tannins and a sour note of the wine.

Eggs

The eggs contain sulfurous flavors that can play up the sulfur in the wine that makes even the best wine taste unpleasant. You can still have eggs, though; however, instead of serving your eggs sunny-side up or poached, and incorporate them into a quiche instead.

This article was supposed to be my entry for our vinum (wine) site, but then I was told that it couldn't be published because it is against our policy. They never told me what's not to post, so I thought anything related to wine is allowed. 

Good thing we have read.cash. Any article that won't be published on our site will be used here instead. HEHE. 

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