Wine with dinner

Instructions

In this activity, you are working for an advertising firm.  You are in charge of arranging a 5-course meal for some very prestigious clients that are interested in hiring your firm. Below are the foods you are serving at each course:

• 1stcourse – tomato bruschetta
• 2ndcourse – garlic butter salmon
• 3rdcourse – chicken marsala
• 4thcourse – filet mignon
• 5thcourse – caramel flan

You are planning to serve a different wine with each course. For every course, you should list the wine varietal/appellation you are going to serve with the dish. You also need to include a photo of the wine, complete with a reference for the photo (i.e. a website URL where you got the wine photo). Finally, you’ll need an explanation why you picked the wine to go with a particular dish. Your explanation should include which wine flavors go best with what flavors in the food. Please be as detailed as you can in your rationale. The following websites should help in coming up with reasonable pairings:

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/15-rules-for-great-wine-and-food-pairings (Links to an external site.)

http://www.foodandwinepairing.org/ (Links to an external site.)

http://www.winemag.com/wine-pairings/ (Links to an external site.)

Your pairing rationales should be in your own words.