The white wines come in a vast array of flavors, bodies, tastes and varieties. The wines are divided and named in part, after the types of grapes that are used to make the wine, when the grapes are harvested, the vineyard making the wine, the methods used to create the wine, any other natural “additives” that may be used in the production of the white wine and also other factors that may be known only to the vineyards and wineries producing them. Wine is an art and the many wineries and vineyards around the globe have some very exceptional artists fortunately for those who do truly love a glass of white wine.
The most common dishes that are served with white wines are fish and chicken. However, depending upon the cut and how it is cooked, it is also very common to find pork being served with white wine, especially if it is tender pork roasted lightly and presented as “the other white meat” as the old advertisements claimed. The white wine selected for these meals will of course depend somewhat on individual tastes and budgets of course.
Some of the fancier white dinner wines will run four to five hundred dollars a bottle with other varieties going for much more. Some of the late spring and early harvested grapes will be made into wines that can cost as little as four to five dollars per bottle. Personal preferences are always going to play a large part in selecting the proper white wine for the meal but there are also some other generalities that are commonly held to be truth as well.
White wines are never served with red sauces or dark “aus jus” type sauces in most restaurants or dinner occasions. When foods like 
the traditional Italian meals are cooked and there is a prevalence of tomato sauce, red wines should be served instead. Any of the pasta dishes that use the white sauces such as is the case with Seafood Newburg, Fettuccine or other Italian dishes made with white wine for the sauce, the white wine generally does not set well and will cause physical discomfort for some people.
There may also be a lot of controversy about where the best white wines in the world come from. Certainly there is no shortage of excellent white wines from France, Germany, Belgium and other parts of central Europe. These countries are historically known to produce some of the finest wines in the world. However, that is not what makes a wine the “best” in the world today so other factors need to be considered as well.
These days, countries like the USA and Australia are competing in an increasingly effective manner with some of their own vintages of white wines. It may be easy for some people to readily dismiss any such claims so preposterous as to declare that the USA or Australia could ever compare … much less compete with France or Germany when it came to wine but unless you have been to the wine judging, you never really know. The most important criteria for the selection of the right white wine is to make certain that it is something that you enjoy. As for what foods go best with your favorite wine, that would be the foods that you decide that you like best when enjoying a glass of wine with your dinner.
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-White wine by basheertome
-White WIne Coq Au Vin by thedabble
