Chips and wine maybe does not seem as evident pair but they indeed create delicious combination if you choose the right grape. It is hard to match big wines with equally rich food, especially when there are so many kinds of wine. Even so, chips make that process much more simple and funny.
Classic, unflavored potato chips with Champagne are especially popular choice. When something on the palate is bubbly with bright bitterness as Champagne, it feels crunchy; like this the crunch of the potato chips and the bubbles of the wine play with the another. Bright wine, including Champagne, is the perfect companion for most chips and fried foods.
Which Wine Goes with Chips
For fancier experience, match potato chips with taste of truffle and Champagne or some other bright wine done by means of the traditional method, for instance dry, brut-style Champagne of Veuve Clicquot, Moët & Chandon or bright wine of Domaine Carneros. Even so, not every cheap bright wine will work, it must be real Champagne.
Potato chips are the best snack for enjoy wine. Suffice to put bought chips in nice bowls, and you already have everything for call that festval.
One simple method for match wines is identify like with like, choosing tastes that echo each other instead of search contrast. Take sip tart white wine, eat vinegar chip and then sip again (the difference is immediately marked). Onion chips with cream match to Chardonnay with oak.
The sharp, racy chips match with this buttery white wine, because the tropical fruit tastes and the bitterness contrast with the saltiness of the chips. These cream onion chips also are excellent pair for Chenin Blanc.
Pinot Noir and BBQ-chips create perfect balance between mild and smoky for wine nights. Pinot Noir is usually gentler, which balances the racy and sweeter aspects of BBQ-chip. Grenache with BBQ-chips is other good combination, and also Rosé work well with them.
Cheetos match very nicely with Pinot Noir because of its salty, cheese taste. Pretzels have stronger, nutty taste than potato chips, so they can stand against heavier wines as Cabernet Sauvignon or Cabernet Franc.
Lime and black pepper chips were created for the Austrian Grüner Veltliner, that is lime and pepper white wine. Riesling, with crisp bitterness balanced by means of the right amount of sweetness, work well with more light chips. Red wine match to chips with smoked gouda-cheese, while rosé, Rieslings and white wines as good Chardonnay go well with Manchego-chips.
Chips, that bring a lot of sweetness, match with drier red wines as Zinfandels either Pinot Noirs, and also with medium-dry Merlot. Ultimately, these cheese chips with rosé, that has touch of residual sugar, do pair that complements each other perfectly.