Which wine goes best with which dish? What should you take into account by chosing a fine wine and how many different wines can be combined with veal? Here you can read in short what is to be taken into account when chosing a fine wine.

Wine at the dining-table
Wine has always been intended to be drunk at the dining-table, with food. But which wine goes best with which dish? And why? Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish? Unfortunately it's not that simple. Which wine goes best with which dish is strongly determined by the way the dish is prepared. The method of preparation is at least as important as is the flavour of the headingredient, maybe even more so. Sauces determine as well if a wine is succesfull which a certain dish or not. It is therefore quite impossible to say that red meat requires red wine.

The ingredients determine the flavour of the dish. And with that the choice of the wine. Please take this into consideration.

Take a look at the scheme mentioned below Kijk in onderstaand overzicht welke typen wijnen bij verschillende overheersende ingrediënten horen:

Fresh sourish ingredients: fruity wine
Strong sour ingredients: dry wine
Sweet-and-sour dishes: dry, mild wine
Salty dishes: sour/sweet wine
Bitter dishes: sweet wine
Spicy dishes: fresh sweet-and-sour wine

With vealdishes all kinds of (young) red, white and rosé wines can be served with veal dishes. Here's a list of the ones most used with veal:

Red wine:
Full-flavoured, flexible red wine.
Type: from ligth, soft to powerfull, spicy red wine.
Origin: Italy

White wine:
Full-flavoured, soft and fruity Italian or French wine.
Type: dry to half-dry
Origin: France or Italy

Rosé wine:
Mild-dry, fruity rosé.
Type: mild-dry
Origin: France (Provence) or Italy