Matching Pinot Noir Wine w/Dinner courses

[Thomas]

I am in the "hate it when youngins' take the easy way out" camp. Also, I have a hard time rectifying some of the assignment questions not only because the students take the easy way out, but because they display a decided lack of passion for the product if they are unable, unwilling or uninterested in doing good research--which of course includes some tasting.

If that fellow/lady would have started by saying he/she is in a culinary class and doing homework, I would first have responded by telling him/her my feelings about the homework stuff, but then I would have advised that along with research he/she try tasting the wines with the foods to actually KNOW the answer instead of just reciting it from other's experience.

Perhaps others here do not, but I make my living teaching about and selling wine. I am not afraid to share information about the product, but I am not happy to toss it away either.