The science of pairing wine with food has been studied for hundreds, if not thousands of years, and the general consensus is that they work wonderfully together. What is not an exact science, however, is what traditional holiday meals are served from one family to another. Each could potentially have a different varietal of wine that suits the staple of the meal. To help with this  dilemma I have comprised a list of common festive feasts and near perfect wines to pair with them.

Have I ever mentioned I love food? I really enjoy flavors, stylistic nuances and regional styles. Maybe the one food that shows these qualities more obviously than any other is cheese. It’s like wine in some ways. Really, wine is just grapes, fermented and aged (which grape and from where it hails is where the story gets juicy). This is where you find all the nuance, regionality, etc., and the same goes for cheese. The list of ingredients is rather small, yet working inside a very small framework of raw ingredients and processes, there are literally thousands of cheeses, all unique!