bitter wine

I would think that a bitter Chinon is not a good Chinon... Bitter wines are not that common, for some reason they seem to be appreciated by wine tasters who are also smokers. It is possoble for some winemakers to deliberately look for bitterness in their product, usually with southern whites that lack in acidity and need to improve balance.

You can match bitter vegetables like endives with a bandol rosé, or with a semi-sweet white. Pepper sauce is not really bitter, it falls into another category, I think it is very hard to match except again I would try sweet whites, or perhaps something like a fino sherry. Pepper sauce usually goes with meat, I cannot think of a red that would benefit from it.

"hoofidentiteitN" wrote in news:453fd75a$0$30054 $ snipped-for-privacy@news.skynet.be:

Like Mike T. bitter Chinon doesn't sound like Chinon, but though I like red chinon with duck, I am not sure I would match red or white loire valley with hare. I would go for Beaujolais for red and Burgundy (St. Veran for example) for white.