Ep 123: Wine and Chinese Food

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's the Chinese New Year so it's time for a pairing podcast! M.C. Ice is fascinated that you can successfully pair wine with Chinese cuisine, but after serious experimentation I made a believer of him.

A few key notes:

1. Slightly sweet Riesling and Vouvray are the MVPs with Chinese. You can't go wrong with these wines because they have full fruit, sugar to counteract the spice, and acidity to keep the flavors lively.

2. Sweet and sour dishes are great with rosé or Alsace

3. With meat dishes, Beaujolais is the MVP but rosé could work for pork buns

4. With seafood, try Muscadet or Albariño

5. Fried rice with egg can take Prosecoo, Viognier or a full Chardonnay

6. Dim sum is hard, but Riesling is your MVP!

If you're a Chinese food lover, you'll love this podcast! Please let us know what you think about these pairings and add some of your own!

Happy Year of the Goat/Sheep!

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0:35.0	listening to Wine for Normal People.
0:37.0	The podcast for people who want to learn about wine
0:40.0	but can do without the attitude that seems to go with it. I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier, and certified specialist of wine.
0:48.6	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:51.0	So the year of the goat for the sheep 2015 in the Chinese New Year and it's finally
0:59.0	time for us to do a pairing episode about pairing wine and Chinese food. pairing the Chinese food is so complex so this is going to be a pretty interesting
1:14.0	episode and I'm going to get into some detail about what to do and a few rules of
1:20.3	thumb that you can follow if all those fails.
1:22.3	Yeah I wouldn't I don't rules of thumb that you can follow if all those fails.
1:22.8	Yeah, I wouldn't, I don't normally think of pairing wine with Chinese food.
1:28.2	What do you think of pairing with Chinese food?
1:30.2	Water?
1:31.2	Water.
1:32.2	Coke, right?
1:33.0	I remember when we were little, I think I told you I used to go to Chinatown all the time in New York and I would sit on the disgusting floor in Motch.
1:43.6	Motch Street was one of the major streets in Chinatown still is.
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