Pinot Noir pairs effortlessly with a wide range of foods - from poultry, through to fish, ham, game birds, grilled beef, lamb and light meats such as veal. Simply-prepared dishes are best for this variety. Pinot also plays well with creamy sauces and spicy seasonings. It is one of the world's most versatile food wines.
Pronunciation - Pee-noh-n'wahr
Merlot is good with a variety of foods from lamb to steaks and spicy Italian foods.
Merlot is very versatile, I like it most with cheeses and Italian dishes, but it's also great with steaks or lamb.
If you have a good Merlot, why would you serve anything else.
Usually, cheese goes well with wine. That's stereotypical though, there are other food items that can go well with wine as well. It depends what wine you're talking about.
All kinds of soft French cheeses like Camembert and Brie, even Gambazola goes with a bold Merlot.
Red meat in general. Preferably Beef.
Fettucini with a white sauce pairs well with Fume/Sauvignon Blanc or Merlot. Fettucini with a red sauce pairs well with Syrah/Shiraz.
Yes and it will work well as both a pre-soak and a marinade.
No, Merlot is medium dry French wine.
Merlot is a wine. Wine is generally drunk straight.
Yes, it's called Merlot wine.
Cape Wine & Food in Staines, Middlesex have it.
Merlot is the name of a French wine grape.
No, merlot is more of a purple (wine colour).
Merlot is a dry wine, and is actually one of the classic dry wines, along with Cabernet. If you ever taste merlot, you will know just by the feeling it leaves in your mouth, as well as the spicy flavor, that it is a dry wine.
Merlot is a rich, fruity red wine, great for all occasions.
Merlot is a dark grape which is usually used to make red wine. Any dark grape can be used to make white wine by not letting the juice stand in the grapeskins as it is fermenting, but I don't know of any instance of Merlot grapes used to make white wine.
The Merlot grape, a smallish dark blue to black grape.