2004 Hansel North Slope Vineyard RRV Pinot Noir

[dananne]

Thanks for the heads-up. I read the thread, and it was partly what I would expect to hear. Frankly, what I've found to be the hardest part of being vegetarian is not missing the foods I formerly enjoyed, but rather the common lack of understanding of what the diet involves. So many people assume that I subsist primarily on twigs and leaves, and our society has somewhat evolved to believe that any meal has to have a "meat" component, rather than thinking of it as a "protein" element.

I had no idea that you had once been a vegetarian. I guess it's true, that we learn something new every day! You're very right in that it involves changing the types of food that you eat -- I eat far more East Asian, Indian, N. African, etc. foods than I had previously. Thus, like what you found, the types of wine that I pair with my meals has changed -- Riesling, Gewurtz, and Viognier go with many of my meals, for example. As for the reds, I just have different pairings, such as earthy Pinot Noir with a grilled mushroom-based dish instead of with, say, a roasted bird or pork.

That having been said, reading comments like "I feel it would be a sin to serve a *great* red wine with a vegetarian meal" and "I do not believe that there is such a thing as great vegetarian cuisine to go with correspondingly great wines" do still get me somewhat rankled, however. I appreciated reading Foodie's response [img]http://wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]