{"id":30273,"date":"2017-04-24T02:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=30273"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T18:38:17","slug":"great-28-pairings-cheese-sparkling-red-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/great-28-pairings-cheese-sparkling-red-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great 28 Pairings: Cheese + Sparkling Red Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great 28 is featured in our Cheese+ 2017 issue<\/a>. Check out 27 other pairings here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h4>\n

There\u2019s something slightly risqu\u00e9 about an effervescent red wine. After all, we\u2019ve been trained by the Champagne industry to equate great sparklers with crystal-clear liquid (think of Cristal<\/a>, Roederer\u2019s coveted cuv\u00e9e, in its transparent bottle). But there\u2019s only one thing separating bubbly blonde from scarlet sparklers: grape skins.<\/p>\n

Leave the skins in the juice for a bit, and you\u2019ll get ros\u00e9. Leave them longer, and not only does the color of the liquid deepen, but so do the scents, flavors, and tannins. Add carbonation, and you\u2019re in for an intense sipper, which is why many sparkling reds are just a little bit sweet\u2014a touch of sugar smooths any rough edges.<\/p>\n

Before you say I only drink dry reds<\/em>, think about some of the greatest wine-and-food matches in the world. Port and blue cheese: sweet with funky. Sauternes and oysters: sweet with salty. Lambrusco<\/a> with Parmigiano-Reggiano<\/a>: sweet, salty, funky, and bubbly to boot.<\/p>\n

Americans have been slow to come around to sparkling reds, thanks to a bad patch in the 1970s with saccharine, commercial versions skewing closer to alcoholic soda than real wine. But that\u2019s rapidly changing. Italy has led the way with Lambrusco\u2014and that\u2019s just the beginning. In the south, there\u2019s bubbly frappato out of Sicily and earthy, red-berried wine from Lettere, a region of Campania devoted to sparkling reds; in the middle, there is Vernaccia di Serrapetrona, a bubbly red mentioned by Dante in his Divine Comedy<\/em> that\u2019s made a comeback recently. The north has Brachetto d\u2019Acqui, a sweet, strawberry-scented bubbly.<\/p>\n

Jeff Berlin, manager and wine director of \u00c0 C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>, a restaurant in Oakland, Calif., finds some of his favorite examples in Slovenia, where vintners make sparklers from a local grape called teran. Those are just a few examples; every country has its own versions. And when sparkling reds step up to the cheese plate, they bat a thousand.<\/p>\n

Lettere<\/h2>\n

An off-dry sparkling red from the volcanic hills south of Naples, this might just be the perfect pizza wine. Boasting ripe red-berry flavors and gentle bubbles, it\u2019s also a natural alongside burrata<\/a>, yet it has enough earthiness under that fruit to take on an aged pasta filata cheese as well.<\/p>\n

Recommended Pairings<\/em><\/p>\n

Maplebrook Farm Burrata<\/a> + Lettere<\/p>\n

Caciocavallo Silano PDO + Lettere<\/p>\n

Sparkling Teran<\/h2>\n

Wines made from teran grapes tend to be metallic and smoky in flavor. Bubbles make them friendlier, especially when produced in the p\u00e9tillant-naturel<\/em> style, in which the wine is bottled while it\u2019s still fermenting. It\u2019s a gentler variety, but retains the grape\u2019s herbal edge\u2014echo that element with leaf-wrapped cheeses.<\/p>\n

Recommended Pairings<\/em><\/p>\n

Banon PDO<\/a> + sparkling teran<\/p>\n

Valde\u00f3n PGI<\/a> + sparkling teran<\/p>\n

Vernaccia di Serrapetrona<\/h2>\n

\u201cThis is the ultimate food-pairing wine in general, not just with cheese,\u201d Berlin says. Its intense berry flavor is derived from a portion of super-ripe, air-dried grapes in the blend\u2014though it still finishes dry. Ruby-red with a fragrant, almost floral scent, the Italian bottle shines in the company of herbed and spiced cheeses.<\/p>\n

Recommended Pairings<\/em><\/p>\n

Le Ch\u00e8vrefeuille Fleur Verte + Vernaccia di Serrapetrona<\/p>\n

Nicolau Farms Quatro Pepe<\/a> + Vernaccia di Serrapetrona<\/p>\n

Feature Photo Credit: Stefano Venturi\/Shutterstock.com<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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