Every year on July 25th the country celebrates National Wine and Cheese Day. I mean wine and cheese go together like peanut butter and jelly, don’t they? How can I not take the time out to celebrate such a natural pairing, especially when it comes to Italian wines and cheeses. This week I also just started my Italian language classes focused solely on Italian food, cheese, and wine so I’m ready to dig in. I am by no means a cheese expert, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to connect with a local cheese expert in the Boston area whom I’ve featured here on Vino Travels years ago, Adam Centamore.
Adam Centamore is food and wine educator and writer helping folks “live their best cheese and wine lives”. He is also author of Tasting Wine and Cheese: An Insider’s Guide to Mastering the Principles of Pairing. I reached out to him recently to pick his brain on some classic Italian wine and cheese pairings and his suggestions on folks navigating the Italian wine and cheese world.
What are your recommendations for someone getting to know and understand Italian wines and Italian cheeses and then pairing them? I think it’s really important to remember that the wine & cheese cultures of Italy are WAY older than the unified country itself. Cheese production dates back more than 2,000 years to the Romans and the first evidence of wine production is twice that old. Italy only unified in 1961. Before that, it was a
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