{"id":2471,"date":"2023-09-29T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2023-09-29T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:58:42","slug":"what-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"What to Serve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve invited some people over for a meal.\u00a0 Or maybe you and your significant other are having a romantic supper at home.\u00a0 Or it\u2019s just an average Tuesday dinner.\u00a0 The same question arises: What wine are you going to serve?<\/p>\n<p>But wait.\u00a0 <em>Power Tasting<\/em> is about visiting wineries and trying their various wines.\u00a0 What does that have to do with dinner plans?\u00a0 We think the question of what to serve should be on your mind while you\u2019re out wine tasting.\u00a0 It\u2019s unlikely that if you buy some of the wine you\u2019re tasting that you\u2019ll ever have the same experience as at a winery.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be at home and there will be no nice server pouring you a selection of wines and explaining what they\u2019re all about.\u00a0 You\u2019ll choose a bottle, maybe two, and that\u2019s what you\u2019ll drink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wine_dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2472 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wine_dinner-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wine_dinner-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wine_dinner.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo courtesy of V is for Vino.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So we suggest that when you are in Wine Country that you consider the scenarios in the first paragraph and the decision you\u2019ll have to make.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Think about how the wine you\u2019re tasting matches up with the kind of food you like to cook and eat.<\/strong> If you\u2019re a meat and potatoes sort of person, you\u2019ll probably gravitate towards big, powerful reds.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you eat a lot of fish you\u2019ll probably enjoy tasting white wines.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t so much about wine pairing as it is about choosing the flights at a winery that will introduce you to the kinds of wine that you might serve at home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You don\u2019t have to impress.<\/strong> We have a tendency, when we are in Wine Country, to taste the finest wines in the area.\u00a0 We have also wondered what the Mondavis and Rothschilds of the world drink with a burger and fries.\u00a0 Maybe they don\u2019t eat burgers; worse luck for them.\u00a0 We do and we bet you do too.\u00a0 And we don\u2019t drink our best wines when we\u2019re pouring on the ketchup. \u00a0So it\u2019s fair to think of what you\u2019d serve at a barbecue and choose wineries to visit that will fit those occasions as well as the steak dinner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taste \u2013 and serve \u2013 what you like<\/strong>. If you\u2019re a fan of, say, Beaujolais, and your guests include people who you believe are more wine-knowledgeable than you are, you don\u2019t have to serve an expensive wine that you don\u2019t know anything about.\u00a0 It\u2019s <em>your<\/em> dinner in <em>your<\/em> home, so you can serve what <em>you<\/em>\u00a0 In all likelihood, the wine will match up pretty well with the food you will be serving.\u00a0 Then, when you\u2019re in France go visit Beaujolais and learn just how wide a taste palate you can find there.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re tasting elsewhere, ask which wines that they make are closest to Beaujolais.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Restaurants are different.<\/strong>\u00a0 When you dine out, you don\u2019t serve a wine; you choose one.\u00a0 There is a server and if you\u2019re lucky there\u2019s a sommelier who will explain the wine to you before you select it.\u00a0 More importantly, there will be different meals consumed by each person, so the selection will almost certainly be some sort of<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve invited some people over for a meal.\u00a0 Or maybe you and your significant other are having a romantic supper at home.\u00a0 Or it\u2019s just an average Tuesday dinner.\u00a0 The same question arises: What wine are you going to serve? But wait.\u00a0 Power Tasting is about visiting wineries and trying their various wines.\u00a0 What does &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What to Serve?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}