It’s often the case in Catalan or Spanish that when talking about wine pairings, they translate this to ‘marriages’ in English. Thus, ‘this wine marries well with lamb’ makes it sound like a wine prone to bestiality as opposed to being a tasty wine to have with food. I bring up the issue of pairings because these days, pairings are all the rage in Catalonia. You can easily find ‘wine pairings of paintings’, ‘wine pairings of jazz’, or my personal non-favorite ‘wine pairings with Star Wars’, ergh… It seems that […]

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