wine

[Thomas]

althealee,

Not that I disagree with your overall wine and cheese observation (I do disagree with some of it)after many years first producing wine and then writing and teaching about wine and food, the one word I have learned to remove from the vocabulary is "should."

While there may be--and are--technical reasons for certain wines to pair with certain foods, and those of us who study and teach are inclined to make these technicalities known, in general, people 'should' pair wine and food as it pleases their palates and sensibilities, whether or not their desires can be technically replicated.

Also, each wine is unique, it having been touched by the hand of nature and of humans. That means that, while it may be accurate to make blanket statements regarding the characteristics of individual grape varieties, it is inaccurate to make blanket statements regarding the attributes of varietal wines as a unit--in other words, no two Malbec varietal wines are alike.