Rethinking Food & Wine Pairings with San Francisco Wine School

Rethinking Food & Wine Pairings with San Francisco Wine School

I’ve attended many food and wine pairings, both through tastings and meals. But I’ve never had an experience like this one, which completely changed how I’ll pair food and wine in the future. It was so enlightening, I felt compelled to share what I discovered with Real Food Traveler readers.

I’m betting this holds true for you – you attend a food and wine tasting and the food items are chosen for you, with one food per one wine. Same with a paired dinner. The winery and/or chef have already identified which wine will go with which food to bring out the best of each. Also, we’ve always been told the rules of red wine with red meat and white wine with poultry and fish. Recently, I attended a very unique kind of food and wine pairing, courtesy of the San Francisco Wine School that made me realize how very limiting those previous tastings and rules had been.  Read the full article by Courtney Drake-McDonough 

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