Dinner - Wine and Food in our Apartment

My friend Jake and I had a great dinner in our apartment with some great wines.  This was one of the first times I really focused on drinking wine and how it tasted with different types of food.  I thought this was a great experience.  We decided to go to the Vintage Cellar to pick up a few bottles of wine for the tasting.  We grabbed a Mapie Malbec and a Villa d'Orvieto to add to the Arrow Creek Cabernet Sauvignon which we already had in our apartment from the week before.  

We looked up these wines and what types of food would be a good pairing with each of them.  The Malbec said that it would go great with meats.  We decided to have BBQ ribs with a side of mashed potatoes.  The Orvieto said that seafood would be a great pairing so we decided to have sushi with it.  Lastly, the Cabernet Sauvignon said that it would pair well with desert so we had a couple pieces of pie with that.  

I started off with the sushi and the Orvieto.  I'm absolutely love sushi and was so excited to try this white wine with it.  The Orvieto and the sushi paired very well together.  It was very cool being that this was the first time I really tried to pair a wine with a food.  The wine sort of had a slightly different flavor to it when taking a sip after eating a piece of sushi.  It was always a very refreshing sip and I really enjoyed the wine. 

After I finished up the sushi, I moved on to the BBQ ribs with the Maipe Malbec.  These also paired very well.  I thought the ribs tasted absolutely delicious, and the Malbec just helped the taste.  Taking a sip of the wine in between bites definitely made the ribs taste much better.  I have never really been a huge fan of red wines, but I definitely enjoyed this wine when having it with the ribs.  

The last wine that I paired was the Cabernet Sauvignon with a piece of chocolate pie.  This was once again a great pairing.  I never thought that any wine could pair well with something chocolaty.  The pie was very rich and very strong.  Taking a sip of the wine was very refreshing after a bite of the very strong pie.  It really helped keep the pie from being extremely rich.  Definitely a fantastic wine to end our meal with.  

This was such an awesome experience.  I'm so glad I did this and cannot wait for the next opportunity to do it again.  I definitely want to go to a restaurant next time and try it again with different pairings.  I would love to see what a restaurant would offer.  Overall, this was a great experience and definitely a lot of fun.  I am also very excited to try this again very soon with different types of wines as well as different foods.