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in
wine today
To really
get the most out of your glass, don’t just match wine with
food – try music
By Georges
Meekers
Almost instinctively we know that wine goes with food. Some Maltese
recipes make classic marriages with our wines. Wine has also become
a ‘lifestyle’ – wine goes with life, when celebrating
or entertaining friends.
So, why not match your preferred bottle with your favourite song?
It shouldn’t be too hard to mirror wine, a magnificently complex
and layered vinous creation, in a complex and layered musical work
of art.
Music can also be helpful when sensory descriptors run a bit thin.
Surely it makes more sense to resort to Debbie Scerri’s angelical
voice to underline a light Chardonnay’s character rather than
to words like ‘prismatic luminescence’.
Unless the Chardonnay in your glass is exotically floral, subtly
oaked and full-bodied. Such a wine would require something corporeal
and avowedly - a ‘Best of Mary Spiteri’ perhaps?
In the pairing game, wine and food, or in this instance wine and
music, ideally complement one another.
The complementary match-ups can be fairly obvious. A Merlot, which
is soft and silky, velvety in texture, somehow alludes to vocalist
Claudette Pace, classy and composed when singing jazz, doesn’t
it?
And, how about a masculine Cabernet Sauvignon, coarser and firmly
structured, a wine that usually gets better with age?
The musical pairing calls for either Mike Spiteri or William Mangion,
yet another two singers that have represented Malta in the Eurovision
song contest in the past.
But somehow, it’s music icon Freddie Portelli that springs
to mind first. Unless you bill Malta’s living rock legend as
the personification of ‘gellewza’, our indigenous red
grape variety?
Letting Malta’s song for Europe in to the equation, this year’s
entry has got to be the bubbliest ever. A winning Eurovision performance
by spark-eyed Fabrizio will definitely ignite the ear-deafening
sound of corks popping. "Another Summer Night – Another
Bottle of Frizzante!"
Approach matching wine with music as you do when complementing wine
with food.
Be adventurous next time you dine out and keep a good sense of humour
handy for when the wine&music-waiter presents you with the musical
wine list. Maestro? Wine, please!
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