Say Cheese!

Turns out it goes fine with red wine.

By Mike Steinberger
Posted Friday, Feb. 17, 2006, at 5:05 AM ET

If one were to compile a list of the least-significant issues confronting mankind in the first decade of the 21^st century, the question of wine's compatibility with cheese would surely rank high. That university researchers would spend dozens of man-hours examining the interplay between Camembert and cabernet only goes to show that some frontiers of knowledge are perhaps better left as virgin forest. Nevertheless, when word broke last month that scientists had proven that red wine and cheese don't mix, the study generated a slew of articles worldwide and much concerned chatter among epicurean types who prefer their Comte with a splash of vin rouge.