Tips to perfectly pair wine and cheese

Well, uh moving right along yesterday was tequila day. That's right today We're celebrating wine and cheese with our next guest. Does it get any better than that? No, probably not in heaven The only thing I can think of better than wine and cheese perhaps chocolate and peanut butter But this is more of the adult version of that. That's right So with us today food and wine editor Limu show and she's gonna give us the perfect marriage of flavor and aroma That is cheese and crisp wine. I'm very good at what I do So good to see you guys I have some of my absolute favorite wines and cheeses right now So you guys are being spoiled this morning? This is like, thank you. Someone's gonna spoil me really incredible lineup So you want to get started, please? Yes question though most important principle for pairing. Yeah Yeah, but she's in the one I would say you always want to match intensity if you do anything match intensity So we're gonna start off somebody gonna match my freak We're gonna start off more delicate and kind of nuanced and then move into a little bit richer deeper You don't want to pair a really rich cheese with a really kind of delicate wine because it's gonna overpower it beautiful So intensity super important. All right, so we are starting with this gorgeous sparkling wine I'm gonna left Jake who they 20 I truly think this sparkling wine is better than most champagnes out there. It's from Sonoma. Try it. It's fantastic J vineyards is a female winemaker Nicole Hitchcock. It's so yummy. It's just so yummy Thank you. So good. I love anything about this pairing that J vineyards with this first cheese Gooey unctuous fromage daffodil. I just want to show you at home the preparation. Look at how lovely she made this I was meticulous. I mean Okay, so we're doing this business. Yes, so it's a soft creamy Left her body It's a breeze style. So really special about fromage daffodil is it's actually lactose free. So yes I know so it's creamy and it's gooey and it's indulgent, but they ultra filter the milk So it concentrates the protein and it removes the lactose. Can I buy that by the pound? Yeah, look look You've got a whole pound right there beautiful So fromage daffodil if you you know, you're get some tummy troubles or some cheese you can still have a creamy gooey gorgeous Okay cheese with that and with that I'm so good. So up next we have Palma's vineyards rosé I love this rosé. Look how gorgeous the color is stunning. It smells like florals It has this lovely tart citrus note to it. I think it's really a perfect summer rosé Want to Wow people with the rosé this I'm Wow so delicious. What cheese are we doing Palma's vineyards with this? We have cheese. All of these cheeses are from Murray's cheese best cheese shop in the city This cheese is seltzer share. So it's goat cheese from the war valley. Sure that they actually sprinkle ash on the rind Yeah, so that's why it has that gray one, right? But that tartness and acidity that you'll get from both the rosé and the goat cheese goes so well together. So again Intensities, I was just gonna say I've been doing it wrong because usually I'll pair something and it's like I'm getting punched in the mouth Mm-hmm. This is very smooth. Yeah, very like our way out though. We're getting from mild to wild She's so we are gonna get a little more wild. All right, let's go All right, so up next we have a Rioja we have this vina real Love a Rioja pairing with any kind of hard longer aged cheese so This cheese is Murray's cave aged gruyere they age it in Long Island City. They have caves in Long Island City No, they don't. Yes, we gotta go. Yes, you can do a whole tour. It's amazing. They're so good at what they do So it's been aged for about a year paired with the Rioja is so beautiful. It's silky soft Want to do tonight? Gosh, so good and that's good last up. What's happening here last up we have port We have a 20 year aged port I just came back from Porto and I got to Visit the people at Sandman, which this is from They're iconic. They have been around for hundreds of years They know what they're doing if you pair a blue cheese, which is what we're doing right now Gorgonzola Mountain it's called paired with a 20 year aged port You're kind of getting like a spoonful of sugar helps the blue cheese go down Because for me the port is so sweet I need I need the blue cheese like but it's you were saying like peanut butter and chocolate and perfect pairing this reminds me of That because you have sweet and salty paired together. I'm obsessed with everything that just happened. So good. It's like drinking caramel It's so good. I say this to you every time every time she comes here. She comes correct