Pizza and wine: a prize-winning pairing perhaps
I keep hoping one of you is going to enter one of these contests and do us proud. I'll keep posting them until you do.
This one is from Bolla Wines of Italy, which calls itself "the Official Wine of Pizza." (Is that good?) The competition is its Taste of Your Town Pizza Battle. The recipes, according to the rules, must use locally produced products or represent something unique to Maryland.
The prizes are pretty good: The winner attends the 2009 World Pizza Championships in Europe and visits Bolla's winery in Verona, Italy. ...
The catch, if you can call it that, is that you have to suggest a wine to pair your crab imperial pizza (or whatever) with. And, surprise, it has to be a Bolla wine. For more details on the contest, go to the company's Web site.
(Photo courtesy of Bolla Wines)
Comments
I can't. I just can't! I'm sorry (cue whining and syrupy music filled with strings here) but pizza is meant to be eaten sloshed down with beer. Obviously I am not referring to 'designer' pizza ...
Posted by: Rob | February 16, 2008 1:29 AM
What kind of beer? Schlitz? Schaefer, the one beer to have when you're having more than one? Pizza and beer? I know that's as American as spaghetti and orange soda, or scrapple and Snapple, but for me it's red wine all the way. A chianti or Montepulciano.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gaucho - I Ride for Justice | February 16, 2008 8:35 AM
For some reason I've always thought of Bolla as being the Italian version of Gallo. Do they actually make decent wines nowadays?
Posted by: Hal Laurent | February 16, 2008 11:48 AM
Regarding Bolla, me too. I don't know if they make better wines, but the contest is about matching their wine to PIZZA. You don't see Dom Perignon having a contest to pair their wines with nachos. There was a really funny line on 30 Rock delivered by Alec Baldwin about sleepwalking after consuming Ambien and a box of Franzia. I couldn't find much love for Bolla wines and oddly enough if you Google "Bolla wines suck" you get D@L, for all the wrong reasons ... nevertheless. I'm guessing it's a pizza wine.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gaucho - I Ride for Justice | February 16, 2008 1:37 PM
OMG - i'm with you on the Montepulciano. I preferr fava beans with my chianti.
Posted by: Janet | February 16, 2008 3:25 PM
OMG - Actually, Pabst would be #1, followed by Miller, with Schlitz a distant third. Then again, doncha know, Milwaukee's Best is real cheap by the case if you're ordering the pizza in.
Posted by: Rob | February 16, 2008 11:27 PM
Back home, it was Carling Black Label with pizza (we didn't have ambien back then so I've no idea how that 'trio' would have gone down, but one does wonder); usually the two-four of Carling Black Label could be found cheaper than the pizza. Carling Black Label...for those times when you've given up all hope.
Posted by: Patrick | February 18, 2008 2:12 PM
I ALWAYS, ALWAYS drink red wine with pizza. Granted, I go for more gourmet style pizzas. But I've never had pizza and beer.
Posted by: carey h | February 19, 2008 6:23 AM
Never had pizza and beer?!?!?
Posted by: Dahlink | February 19, 2008 11:20 AM
I know Elizabeth will be reviewing Juniors on Sunday, but I've been there... a couple of times. Let me just say - duck pizza and Montepulciano - you won't be sorry!
Posted by: Lori | February 19, 2008 1:43 PM
I have to say that wine vs. beer with pizza is very touchy. I think a nice sodera reserva 1990 with a thick pizza goes great for lunch. But when it comes to dinner, a hot thin crust pizza with a cold dark beer.
Posted by: Zach Reinhard | August 12, 2008 4:34 PM