I’ve always liked wine, especially red wine and as people who drink wine they enjoy it with food or without. Oftentimes, especially when it comes to red, the pairings often lean towards meat dishes. I don’t know if I’m an outlier, but I mostly eat vegetarian food and I still find red wine pairs pretty well, but I’d like to find a magazine or a blog or something, that doesn’t just focus on meat dishes. Often the reviews are quite short, describing the taste and then finish with “goes well with hard, strong cheeses and this and this meat and this meat as well”.

I’m perfectly capable of drawing my own conclusions whether the wine I have pairs well to my taste with whatever I might possibly eat it with, but I like exploring and finding new favorites. So I was wondering if people have any good recommendations for finding new wines that also take into account that not everyone always eats ribs and game and beef and whatnot.

  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I guess you don’t find much in magazines because many red wines simply aren’t vegan/vegetarian.

    You might have more success specifically looking for vegan wines.

    • oomphaloompha@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Is red wine not generally seen as vegetarian? I know about it not being vegan, but is there something else I don’t know?

      I intentionally left out vegan specifically for the same reason.

      I would still be interested, as a lot of foodstuffs are considered vegetarian even if some animal sourced ingredient or agent was used. I’m not a 100% vegetarian in the first place. Mostly, but not a 100%.

      I mean, you see a lot of vegetarian food sites etc. still include recipes that use eggs and other ingredients that are animal based or -sourced.

      edit: Wow, a surprising amount of wine is not even vegetarian and it isn’t just limited to red wine. I mean as a not-100%er it’s such a miniscule part of it, but damn, will keep in mind in the future. Spirits and beer it is!

      edit2: Goddamnit apparently a lot of beers use the same fining agents used with wine. At least my spirits are fine for the vast majority at least.