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Red Wine and Cheese – Has The Relationship Gone Sour?
Do you drink red wine with cheese, or is it not on? I know that food and wine pairing is totally subjective, and I would never shove a wine into someone’s face, but would a glass of white wine marry up better than any red? Perhaps, it depends which cheese is the partner?
But if it is only the cheese you care about, it may not matter what the wine is, but to enjoy the wine and also to do it credit, it pays to give careful consideration to the pairing.
Ballentine Vineyards
Ballentine is a bit different than many of the other wineries I’ve featured from the St. Helena AVA for a couple of different reasons. To start, they make slightly more wine. Total production for the winery seems to hover at around seven thousand cases, which is hardly a big production operation but there are some nice side effects of having a winery with that level of production.
To start, Ballentine is still able to hand craft specific wines from small portions of their vineyard. They make, for Napa Valley, a reasonably priced small production Cabernet Sauvignon like many of their neighbors but they also make a variety of other varietals such as Chenin Blanc, Zinfandel and Petite Syrah.