What to drink with a cheese platter?

Soft cheeses with washed or bloomy rinds, cooked or uncooked pressed cheeses, fresh cheeses, goat's cheeses... Adding to the choice of your cheese selection is the historic battle between the "pro white wine" and "pro red wine" camps to accompany cheese. White wine has repeatedly proven its worth with cheese. But with red wine, it's the consumer's "passion" side that expresses itself and often wins out. The wine and cheese pairing: a match made in heaven!

The right wine for every cheese

For the rest of this article, we could have suggested wine pairings for each of the 400 French cheeses. But the challenge isn't exciting enough. And frankly, what good will it do you to know that a Pouligny-Saint-Pierre can be drunk with aPouilly-fuméa Pont-L'Évêque with aBourgogne rouge or a Tomme de Savoie with a whiteCrozes-Hermitage white! If your platter features all 3 cheeses, you're not going to serve all 3 wines!

So what wine and cheese pairing should you choose?

Here are 5 tips and wines to drink with your cheese platter:

• Wine n°1: the same wine as the main course! Yes, if you've already opened several bottles and you're afraid of a difficult tomorrow, then don't take any chances: the wine from the main course will go very well with the cheeses.
• Wine n°2 :Pouilly-fumé(Loire), a white wine that offers a good compromise and can therefore be drunk with several cheeses.
• Wine n°3 :Petit-chablis(Burgundy), a dry, fruity white wine that's perfect before dessert.
• Wine n°4 :Saumur-Champigny(Loire), a red wine that also offers a good compromise, the counterpart to pouilly-fumé.
• Wine n°5 :Saint-Emilion(Bordeaux), a round red wine that, like many Bordeaux wines, goes well with cheese.Bordeaux wines.

Once again, many other combinations are possible! Wine and cheese pairings are almost infinite. This selection offers wines that will be good compromises. Enjoy!

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