Wine Dinner Blog #1

 

For today's dinner, I had a lasagna meal as the dish. For the wine I paired with the lasagna, I had the Bay Bridge Chardonnay White Wine. This Chardonnay wine has a grape variety of only using Chardonnay grapes in it.

Wine Without Food: Before eating I tasted the this wine by itself. At first I did not enjoy the taste at all. There was a weird sour taste to the wine felt like it ruined my taste buds. I am not a huge fan of sour foods or drinks so this was not a taste I enjoyed at all. However, after drinking it a few more times, the sourness seemed to not be as strong and I enjoyed it a little more, but it still was not too much to my liking still but a little more enjoyable.

Wine with Lasagna Pairing: Eating the lasagna with this Chardonnay, this pairing of these two was not very enjoyable at all. The sourness mentioned earlier from the wine overpowered the flavor of the lasagna and the sauce. The sauce specifically tasted like sour tomato sauce, which was not a great tasting experience. The lasagna did not have much of its unique taste since it was being drowned out and overtaken by the wines sour flavor. The sourness and acidity of the wine completely ruined the tasting of the food, there was no complementing each other between the wine and lasagna at all with this pairing. The wine completely drowned out the little saltiness and spices of the lasagna, which is not good at all since that's what helps give the lasagna some pop and more flavor. The one good thing about this pairing was that the lasagna lowered the amount of tartness/acidity/sourness that was coming from the wine somewhat, but it was not enough to make it not overbearing. For this pairing to work the wine needed to be less acidic/sour and more sweet, or the flavors of the lasagna to be more powerful to balance out the flavors between the two.

While I ate this pairing alone, I'm glad I did because I would not recommend this pairing to any friends or family. This was not a good decision to pair up a pasta dish like lasagna and a Chardonnay wine. They just do not go well together.