Cheese the Day

Wine. Cheese. Wine. That’s the basics of tasting wine with cheese!  You start with a swirl of the wine in the glass to see the color, then sniff and sip a mouthful of wine which you can spit or swallow. Think for a moment about the elements of the wine: Fruit? Florals? Woods? Acid? Texture? Finish? Next is a bite of cheese. Chew to coat your mouth with the cheese before swallowing. How did the cheese go with the wine? Did the cheese make the wine better? Or the wine make the cheese better? Then you’re back to the wine. Is the wine better now with the presence of the cheese on your palate?

These were the directions for our guided tasting “Cheese the Day,” one of 80 events during the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience this week. Continue reading →