Wine and Salad

While a bit unconventional, pairing wine and salad is quite easy and rewarding.  With spring coming fresh local greens will start to go on sale at grocery stores and farmers markets and it makes perfect sense to make them into healthy, wonderful salads.  Traditionally the drink to go with fresh greens was mineral water, but times are changing and it is being realized that wine can really compliment a salad and bring out hidden characteristics in both. 

                Pairing a salad with a wine is less about the salad and more about what is on it.  Greens, even delicate or unusual ones like dandelion or watercress, take fairly well to any flavor but dressings like Caesar or blue cheese need to have their intense flavors taken into account.  Pair a salty yet fresh greek salad with a reisling, it has what it takes to compliment feta cheese.  A Caesar salad will need something more like a Beaujolais or Sangiovese to have a smooth ending.  A cobb salad can be paired with a glass of Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio for a light weekend lunch.  Celebrate spring by making a bunch of a crowd pleasing salad and get some complimenting wine in three bottle wine bags for a dinner with friends that won’t soon be surpassed.

via Rhino Wino