WINE SEEKS CHEESE

Six nice wines, types from different farming regions, we pair each time with three cheeses. The best match gets to meet further. This is Wine seeks Cheese! text Renée Salome + Marjolein Schuman | thanks to Edwin Raben (wine tips), Betty Koster (fromagerie l'amuse) and business France

Winelife likes to do pairing, and what better matches our grape nectar than dairy product cheese? Combining a good sip of wine in your mouth with the right type of cheese tickles all your taste buds. With six examples of French wine-cheese combinations, you can get inspiration for your winter dinner.

Nature does its work
Cheese, like natural product wine, comes in all kinds of styles depending on the landscape, on the climate, on the additions made by the artisan and on the maturation period on wood. It is believed that cheese was accidentally discovered some five thousand years ago by wandering nomadic peoples. For them, milk was a very valuable consumer product. They stored it in dry bags made from the stomachs of dead animals. The gastric juices left behind thickened the milk, and people ate it. However, there is a lot of speculation about cheese in its primal form. Just this summer, potsherds seven thousand years old were found in the Mediterranean that are said to contain traces of fat from cheese. Also a recent report: archaeologists have found a pot in the tomb of Ptahmes in Egypt containing a white solid that, after chemical analysis, turns out to be a substance made of cow's milk and goat's or sheep's milk. The cloth inside the jar, made of hemp fibres, was probably meant to keep the contents good. Cheese from the 13th century BC! Be that as it may, the discovery of cheese comes after the discovery of wine in terms of importance as far as we are concerned. Together, they provide flavours to melt from. So when the question came in whether we wanted to participate in a 'Tour des vins et fromages de France' at the French residence in The Hague, we already had our coats on....

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