After five and half years of teaching cheese and beverage pairing classes I've come to a startling conclusion: beer and cheese are better partners than wine and cheese.
This is counter-intuitive because the conventional wisdom holds that "what grows together goes together," and most of the world's best cheeses and wines come from France and Italy, but pairing wines and cheeses is tricky. Some white wines are so acidic that they obliterate the flavor of many cheeses. And some red wines have such subtle overtones that nearly any cheese will obscure them.
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