Chianti

[Thomas]

If we did not have different experiences and different preferences we would have little to discuss on this or any other board. And so you can see that I never said what you or anyone "should" eat with wine. I said what technically happens when acidity in wine meets strong tasting food, as opposed to when acid meets acid. And I pointed out that some foods have strong tastes and flavors yet they may not necessarily have high acidity. In other words, acidity doesn't mean strong flavors.

In my years of teaching people about the relationship between wine and food I have never taught that one "should" do anything. I try to teach people the facts and ask that they explore those facts. But I also know that many people simply cannot focus the way a trained person focuses on the relationship between wine and food, and so, many people like what they like, in spite of the fact that what they like might be contrary to what the facts say work best.