CigarsLover Magazine I 2023

TASTE
Cheese
Far from culinary preparations or laden with food tables,
what tasting space can be cut out for a product apparently so "poor"?
by Giuseppe Mitolo
Wine and cheese constitute a culinary duet
among the most classic and dating back in
time, prior to the birth of the very concept of
"pairing", which has become very trendy only
recently. Both are products that derive from the transformation
of a raw material on which human know-how has major
impact and on both it is not necessary to add many other "ingredients"
to obtain a very enjoyable finished product. Yet,
they do not appear to have equal dignity in common feeling.
Wine seems to have redeemed itself from its strong agricultural
origin: today it is possible to buy bottles of hundreds
of euros / dollars and some products are even the
subject of auctions or private sales among collectors.
A true oenological culture has risen, creating literature,
experts and connoisseurs. Not to mention the champagne
that, with a different production technique, brings to the
table a grape juice ennobled by soft and refined bubbles.
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