assignment 3-3rd draft Song Min Hee

Song Minhee (200804046)                            

English Writing  

11 July 2010

The Cheese and Wine

 

What do you prefer to eat with wine? When all is said and done, there's nothing better than cheese. There's one thing you may notice about both wine and cheese. They are both fermented foods. Basically all kind of wines go particularly well with cheeses, because cheeses have the essential amino acids which help to break down alcohol. Regardless of this fact, everybody knows that cheese go with wine. However, I always spent a lot of time to select a cheese among various cheeses. So today, I will give some tips which cheese taste good with which wine.    

 

Let's look at blue cheese for a dessert wine first. The most typical blue cheeses are Roquefort, Gorgonzola, and Stilton. The blue cheese is left to age for long time and tastes strongly salty. This salty taste enriches the sweet flavor of dessert wine. This is why the blue cheese goes well with a sweet dessert wine such as French Sauternes or Germany Trockenbeerenauslese.

 

Next we will see Parmesan, Gruyere, and Cheddar. Even though I usually enjoy these with red wine, I have to choose different wines because of their own flavor. First of all, Parmesan is the representative hard cheese. Pouring some honey over parmesan is the better way to appreciate its flavor with medium bodied red wine like French Beaujolais. And Gruyere, the typical cheese in Switzerland, is mostly used in the fondue. Its mild creamy flavors make me savoring with Australian Shiraz which is very strong flavor. The last thing is Cheddar that is familiar with sandwich fillings. Actually you may enjoy this cheese with French Merlot which is medium bodied red wine, also high-acid white wines with a long period of aging.

 

Who doesn't love the taste of Mozzarella cheese? Mozzarella is a mild white Italian cheese. It has a rubbery texture and is often eaten as on pizza. Not only with pizza but also with French Chardnonnay goes well. Chardnonnay is kind of white wine and isn't aged in oak casks. Mozzarella cheese has fresh milk flavor which makes white wine best.

 

Selecting a great cheese is too tricky, because there are too many cheeses and wines in the world. The reason why I categorize cheeses according to kind of wine is that we often eat cheese with wine. However, the more I learn about cheese and wine, the more I enjoy the taste of cheese in different ways. From now on, I hope you to have a choice of various cheeses when you drink wine.