Have a great weekend Michelle.

interesting and well written post. I’ll only complete your thought by saying that this same variety of food you mention (“each valley or town has a different selection”) applies to Italian wine also. Our wine varieties are in fact much more numerous than those of France.

I was telling a Chinese friend, to make him understand the importance of this gift from Gods: “Wine is similar to your sauces in some way: we drink it to enhance food taste, and less for its alcoholic effect. Every different dish can have one or more matching wine, and it takes a lot of knowledge to know which goes with what”.

Theoretically, it could be possible here to prepare a dinner with 10 different dishes and 10 (even 20) accurately chosen matching wines.” Well, it would take too long, plus people would get lost lol.

As far as wine marketing, I agree that more can be done since as for now many excellent wine varieties are still unknown abroad, but on the whole our wine it is not so poorly marketed. Let us not forget we have have become the first foreign wine importers in the USA, beating the French (maybe Maryann can confirm this).

This was some months ago, though: now, being a moment of economical turmoil things could be different.

All the best

Now I wonder why this happens to be one of your fave subjects…

Hope you will enter the recipe contest, by the way!