Article: Wine and cheese: finding matches made in heaven.(guidlines for pairing wine, cheese)(Column)

The first pairing of cheese and wine was most likely a heavenly mandate to ensure epicurean joy for the blessed. When the right wine and cheese are joined for snack and sip, it is a marriage made in heaven. Finding that perfect match has become a recent quest. I set out thinking that I would be guided by another favorite (and currently trendy) culinary truism: foods from a region are best accompanied by wines from that same region.

My hypothesis was soon skewered. Emma F. Randel of Shenandoah Vineyards in Edinburg, Va., noted that while in the case of special minerals in the soil, there might be a special affinity between the grapes and the dairy products ...

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