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What wine with cheese?

Food and wine pairing · classic benchmarks: the preparation and your taste come first.

Against the red-wine reflex, most cheeses actually prefer white: goat cheese with Sauvignon, Comté with Jura wine, blue cheese with sweet wine. Red keeps its place with tommes and mild soft cheeses.

White

A white's acidity cuts through fat: Sancerre with goat cheese, Jura with Comté, two canonical pairings.

• Sancerre
• Chablis
• Arbois
• Côtes du Jura
• Meursault

Red

Supple and fruity with tommes and mild soft cheeses; avoid massive tannins.

• Beaujolais
• Mercurey
• Chinon

Sweet and fortified

Sweet against salt: the blue-cheese pairing (Roquefort with Sauternes above all).

• Sauternes
• Maury
• Banyuls
• Jurançon

How to use these pairings

A good pairing balances the dish and the wine: neither should dominate. The suggestions above are proven classics for the category, not rules: the preparation, the sauce and your taste matter more. When in doubt, the regional pairing (the wine from the dish's homeland) rarely fails.

What about your cellar?

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