Wine designed to match sushi
14th Nov 2006, 04:52 GMT
Filed under: Wine, Lush Life, Happy Hour, Did you know?, Europe A Japanese woman, Yako Soto, who trained in wine making in Spain and works for Freixenet, felt that there were no wines that paired well with sushi. So she spent a year experimenting and came up with a wine she designed specifically to go well with sushi. At first this sounds like an easy task. Wouldn't any light white wine be good? But then if you think about it you realize it's not that easy. You have salty soy sauce, the spicy bite of wasabi, tart and sweet pickled ginger, mild fish and strong fish, seaweed, miso, and more. These are a lot of very different types of flavors for a wine to play off of, a difficult task to say the least. I make sushi at home and have tried to drink a glass of wine with it but most wines really don't go well at all. The closest I came was with a pinot grigio, and even then it wasn't great. I have to say that's my fault since I don't care very much for very light wines. Well this wine, called Oroya, is supposed to pair excellently with sushi, just as it was created to. This got me thinking again about wine and sushi. Recently I was at a wine expo and tried a New Zealand sauvignon blanc that I felt was very unusual. It was light and had a medium acid level which normally bores me, but this time I really liked it. Mostly because it had the most interesting flavors going on, the main one was a non-spicy version of jalapeno and habanero chile's, followed by a long finish of pomelo (related to grapefruit.) I will have to track down this wine and try it with sushi because I think it just may be a happy union. When I do I'll report back. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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