Certified Specialist of Wine Kathleen Lisson offers her perfect pairing for tangy Sauerkraut (watch for the mini cameo of her Italian Greyhound).

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Kathleen Lisson: Hi, I am Kathleen Lisson, and thank you for watching this video. I am going to spend a little time talking about something I discovered last weekend, a great wine and food pairing that maybe you wouldn't think of would be an actual pairing. I am a really big fan of Sauerkrauts. I actually -- my dad tells me that we're German, and I also know that we're Irish and Polish. So I kind of get the best of all three worlds. I get to celebrate Saint Patrick's day and I eat Sauerkrauts. I get to celebrate Dyngus Day and I eat Sauerkrauts and I get to celebrate October 5, and again, lots of Sauerkrauts . So I think it's in my blood. I really like this side dish, but I always thought to myself what kind of wine do you serve with a dish Sauerkraut? I think I found the answer. I recently tried this wine. It's Cabernet Franc . It's from the Loire Valley in Chinon, district of the Loire Valley, and it is really a tanging wine. It has flavors of black cherry, but the tanginess, the acidity in the wine really makes your mouth feel pop when you taste it. So I thought, hey, I've heard that if you have a really tanging wine, it might be a good idea to pair it with the tanging food and the tanginess would kind of compliment each other out. Well, I have some Sauerkrauts and I had a vegetarian frank with it, and actually it was a really good match, the Sauerkrauts was tang and then the wine was tanging on it's own, but when I had mouthful of Sauerkrauts, and I added some wine, the tanginess really canceled each other out, and it made the flavors of black cherry, and the wine really come to the front. So the wine got a little gentler you could enjoy it without that tangy taste in your mouth, and it's also a welcome relief to the sometime overly tanginess of my favorite side dish, Sauerkraut. So the next time you have a dish that involves Sauerkrauts, think of pairing it with a tanging white wine. Have a great day!