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When the Rains Arrive: Pairing Hot Tea, Coffee, and Ice Cream Through a Wet Summer
Monsoon season rewrites the rules of summer drinking. Here is the pairing logic behind hot tea, strong coffee, and a scoop of ice cream when the sky opens up.
Read →Drinking Well Without Wine: A Summer Pairing Guide for Pregnancy
Pregnant this summer? You don't have to surrender the pleasure of a thoughtful pairing. Here's how acid, bitterness, and tannin work in the glass, no alcohol required.
Read →Wine with Soft-Shell Crab: A Summer Pairing Worth Mastering
Soft-shell crab season is brief and brilliant. Here's how to choose a wine that matches its delicacy, its char, and the brown butter underneath.
Read →Why Cabernet Sauvignon loves a charred steak
Three structural facts about tannin, protein, and fat explain why this pairing has held for two centuries.
Read →Three principles for pairing wine with food
Forget the long lists. Three ideas explain almost every successful pairing — and every failed one.
Read →Salt and acid: wine pairing's underrated tools
Most pairing guides obsess over flavor matching. The real work is being done by salt and acid, every time.
Read →When the textbook pairing fails: matching wine to mood
The technically perfect pairing isn't always the right one. Sometimes you want the wine that fits the moment.
Read →The case for red wine with fish (yes, really)
The old rule was made for cod and chablis. Modern menus have moved on.
Read →How to read a wine list with confidence
Three questions to ask yourself before the sommelier reaches the table. Forty seconds, maximum.
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