Scandalous!

topix is claiming today, "There are no rules for pairing food and wine," and asking us to discuss.

Could this be true? Is all the struggle to find the perfect Reisling to go with my medium rare Tenderloin all for nothing?

My personal opinion is that yes, there must be rules. I feel like if the wine causes a reaction with the food in your mouth, either exacerbating, enhancing or dulling the flavor of the food, then there must be rules as to what goes with what, even if it's as simple as pairing with like textures. I'll give you an example. One of the times we had the Black Sheep (reviewed below), we made a spicy Thai Peanut Chicken flatbread pizza. The pizza: fantastic. The wine: fantastic. The two together = mouth on fire and perhaps a little too much flavor to be enjoyable. Thus, it's because of instances like that that I feel a newbie such as myself needs to be told that great wine + great food does not always equal great meal. There, I just gave you a real.

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