Provençal Pairings: Wine with Food When the Understudy Shines
I bought a Vacqueyras several years ago to write about for this column; it was a young vintage that I put aside allowing it to mature. Then, one evening, friends came to dinner (and wouldn’t leave), and more wine needed to be poured. As said guests are discerning red wine drinkers (no white or rosé at all), I looked in my wine rack for something they might like. I pulled a Vacqueyras … the Vacqueyras … forgetting its PWZ purpose. Oops.
But, when I poured it that evening after the meal was said and done, I realized it was a food wine, not a sipping wine. That provided me some good intel for going forward. It made me ponder the characteristics of... [...]
