Article: Opposites Attract Pairing Wine, Cheese

For a happy marriage of wine and cheese, choose the partners carefully. Otherwise, the Cabernet might fight with the baby Swiss.

One rule of thumb holds that the greasier and fattier the cheese, the more acidic the wine should be, said Johnson C. Ho, president of the Knightsbridge Wine Shoppe in Deerfield.

Other general rules are that saltiness in the cheese requires some sweetness in the wine, and that hard or dry-textured cheeses require soft, buttery-textured wines.

Champagne, the festive favorite, marries well with delicate, nonspicy, nonblue cheeses such as Muenster, baby Swiss, Brie or an unflavored Camembert, said Ho, who recently outlined wine and cheese pairings at an ...

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