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Getting a wine and cheese pairing just right takes a little experimenting.
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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September 7, 2004
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Byline: Bill Daley
Wine and cheese seem such a natural pairing the words even sound like they belong together, like Abbott and Costello, Seals and Croft, or Mary-Kate and Ashley. Yet any good partnership needs plenty of work to hold together_just look what happened to Martin and Lewis, Sonny and Cher or even J.Lo and Ben.
So it is with wine and cheese. You've got to do some thinking to get it really right.
There are no sweeping dictums like "red with beef, white with fish" to guide a consumer faced with an ever-expanding number of pairing choices. Wine and cheese experts alike will tell you that the successful match depends on the particular cheese, the available ...