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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 140" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/drink/the-best-wines-to-drink-with-salads-1.3547150" target="_blank"><strong>The best wines to drink with salads - The Irish Times</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It makes sense to match light-bodied wines with delicately flavoured foods</p><p></p><p>As the good weather continues, this week we will look at wines to drink with summer salads. I may have been guilty of blithely suggesting to match a particular wine with salads in general. But what kind of salad? There is a huge difference between a delicate herb-scented dish of courgettes and fennel, and a plate of full-on chili-spiked Mexican beans. And what if you are serving a barbequed steak, lamb skewers or sweet chili chicken drumsticks alongside your salad?</p><p> </p><p>As with most food and wine matching, it makes sense to serve light-bodied wines with delicately flavoured foods and richer wines with more powerful recipes. Sharp acidic salads go best with crisp refreshing white wines. Many books suggest only white wines, but if I often drink a Beaujolais or another light red with whatever is going.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 140, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/drink/the-best-wines-to-drink-with-salads-1.3547150'][B]The best wines to drink with salads - The Irish Times[/B][/URL] It makes sense to match light-bodied wines with delicately flavoured foods As the good weather continues, this week we will look at wines to drink with summer salads. I may have been guilty of blithely suggesting to match a particular wine with salads in general. But what kind of salad? There is a huge difference between a delicate herb-scented dish of courgettes and fennel, and a plate of full-on chili-spiked Mexican beans. And what if you are serving a barbequed steak, lamb skewers or sweet chili chicken drumsticks alongside your salad? As with most food and wine matching, it makes sense to serve light-bodied wines with delicately flavoured foods and richer wines with more powerful recipes. Sharp acidic salads go best with crisp refreshing white wines. Many books suggest only white wines, but if I often drink a Beaujolais or another light red with whatever is going. [/QUOTE]
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