The Wino's First Pairing

Fellow boozers, are you wondering what you should drink with "Burg's Potato Salad," a recipe from Molly Wizenberg's book A Homemade Life? Such a great recipe from such a great book deserves a great wine.

The Wino recommends the wallet-friendly Pine Ridge 2008 Chenin Blanc - Viognier. This wine's tart chenin blanc balances the heavier oak flavors of the viognier, creating a fresh and sweet symmetry with the salad's potato, egg, and creamy mayonnaise (The Wino freely admits that she loves mayonnaise. Can you admit it, fellow boozer?). The fusion of salad and wine allows the freshly chopped dill in the salad's dressing to really shine.

This is a first for The Wino. She is a definitely a wine novice but she has been drinking a lot of the stuff for few years now and she decided it was high time she put on her white pants and tried her own pairing. She had some help from some especially distinguished fellow boozers at The Tiny House who have a great love of food and wine. She really appreciates their help, and really enjoys it when they invite her over for pork chops.

Boozers, if you are interested in trying a pairing of your own, The Wino suggests you follow tips from the very wise wine writer and guru Karen MacNeil. In her book, The Wine Bible, she lays out 10 common-sense pairing principles. The principle that helped The Wino select the chenin blanc - viognier for Burg's Potato Salad was, "...Match delicate to delicate, robust to robust." Also, here is a wine pairing Web site that might be useful for your pairing efforts.

Cheers!

P.S. You can get Pine Ridge 2008 Chenin Blanc - Viognier at Esquin Wine Merchants in Seattle for about $9. The Wino loves Esquin.