Don’t want beer today? No worries, here’s what type of wine plays nice with game-day food.
Salty snacks: Inexpensive bubbly such as Italian prosecco, Spanish cava or American sparkling wine.
Fiery buffalo chicken wings: Something lightly sweet, such as riesling.
Five-alarm chili: Something hearty, lush and so fruity it almost seems sweet — red zinfandel, red-wine blends, malbecs from Argentina; and, for chicken chili, California chardonnays.
Steaks, pork chops and lamb shanks: Big, red, tannic wines: cabernet sauvignon or merlot.
Tex-Mex dishes: Grapefruity, lime-tinged, cut-grass-scented sauvignon blanc.
— Tribune News Service
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