I'm looking for cheese suggestions for sweet wines, in particular madeira or port. :homestar:
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None, the cheese course should act as a palate cleanser before the port. A chemical reaction occurs between the proteins in milk which coats the tongue and makes the wine taste more acidic. Just serve grapes or pears with your cheese.
However, if you insist in ruining both your fortified wines and your cheese, only a sturdy blue cheese like mature Stilton will stand up to the assault.
What about hard sweet cheese, like Gruyere, with Madeira?
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Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 09:26:43 AM
What about hard sweet cheese, like Gruyere, with Madeira?
Madeira and Gruyere work together in recipes, like onion soup with Gruyere, but in that case the alcohol's been boiled off.
Be civilised and wait. And if you really want to show class, stick with cheese from a single region. Gruyere and Stilton on the same cheese board is a no-no.
But seeing as you wear a ready-tied bow tie and have thus proven you have no class, just load up on whatever cheese you want and glug down the booze of your choice :P
Brazen is right as usual. If you ust pair a sweet wine with cheese the best is a blue cheese. Gorgonzola would work ok. Sweet wines go with pudding
Quote from: Barrister on September 30, 2011, 09:29:44 AM
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You eat chocolate with madeira or port.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 30, 2011, 10:30:58 AM
You eat chocolate with madeira or port.
Bitter chocolate. 70%+
Ok, Ms Smartypants Brazen, what kind of straw do I use when I drink my wine?
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 11:20:42 AM
Ok, Ms Smartypants Brazen, what kind of straw do I use when I drink my wine?
As a winemaker, I recommend crazy straws.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 30, 2011, 11:21:33 AM
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 11:20:42 AM
Ok, Ms Smartypants Brazen, what kind of straw do I use when I drink my wine?
As a winemaker, I recommend crazy straws.
Aren't you supposed to be all snooty and demand people call you a vintner?
Quote from: Barrister on September 30, 2011, 11:24:15 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 30, 2011, 11:21:33 AM
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 11:20:42 AM
Ok, Ms Smartypants Brazen, what kind of straw do I use when I drink my wine?
As a winemaker, I recommend crazy straws.
Aren't you supposed to be all snooty and demand people call you a vintner?
Not when selling 8 and 10 buck wine in IGA supermarkets.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 30, 2011, 10:30:58 AM
You eat chocolate with madeira or port.
Or you combine both: Dark chocolate cups (small ones mind you - the size of a big thumb) - stuffed with a nugget of Stilton while you drink your 20 yo (min) Porto.
G.
Reese's cups with cheese? An unlikely combination.
:frusty:
G.
Quote from: Ideologue on September 30, 2011, 11:31:06 AM
Reese's cups with cheese? An unlikely combination.
I know people that eat those Little Debbie oatmeal cake with a slice of American cheese.
I think it is an abomination.
What kind of beer do I drink with deep fried twinkies? Valmy, you're from Texas you should know.
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
What kind of beer do I drink with deep fried twinkies? Valmy, you're from Texas you should know.
Deep fried beer of course.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7973944/Deep-fried-beer-invented-in-Texas.html
Quote from: Valmy on September 30, 2011, 11:47:31 AM
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
What kind of beer do I drink with deep fried twinkies? Valmy, you're from Texas you should know.
Deep fried beer of course.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7973944/Deep-fried-beer-invented-in-Texas.html
I love the internet some days. :)
You do realize you used a British newspaper toreport on Texas fried beer?
Quote from: Barrister on September 30, 2011, 11:55:42 AM
I love the internet some days. :)
You do realize you used a British newspaper toreport on Texas fried beer?
I get all my news from the mother country. Which is why I think England is rubbish compared to Poland.
Actually I hadn't realized it :blush:
Quote from: Valmy on September 30, 2011, 11:56:56 AM
Quote from: Barrister on September 30, 2011, 11:55:42 AM
I love the internet some days. :)
You do realize you used a British newspaper toreport on Texas fried beer?
I get all my news from the mother country. Which is why I think England is rubbish compared to Poland.
Actually I hadn't realized it :blush:
Nothing to be embarassed about. With the internet, using the Telegraph is as valid a source as something out of Texas. It just struck me about what a wodnerful age we live in.
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
What kind of beer do I drink with deep fried twinkies? Valmy, you're from Texas you should know.
I wish I knew. I have a lot of very expensive beer but I am not cultured enough to know what goes well with it.
Stilton is the classic match. For Gorgonzola, one of harder versions is preferable.
With respect to Brazen, I nonetheless disagree about the propriety of presenting variety on the cheese board. Sure it will screw with your wine pairings, but by then it is the end of the dinner anyway.
Around here they have 3 or 4 shots of whiskey before the cheeseboard arrives.
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 12:29:23 PM
Around here they have 3 or 4 shots of whiskey before the cheeseboard arrives.
Why do they use a cheeseboard to serve deep fried twinkies?
You ever tried to hold those bastards right out of the fryer?
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 09:18:24 AM
I'm looking for cheese suggestions for sweet wines, in particular madeira or port. :homestar:
you don't eat cheese with any of these wines. In fact, you do not drink any of these wines.
Port = :yuk:
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 09:18:24 AM
I'm looking for cheese suggestions for sweet wines, in particular madeira or port. :homestar:
Dick.