It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Ming Dynasty. There is a Ming Dynasty book: "August 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, and folks use moon cakes to reunite, which means reunion." The jade rabbit cooks tea and washes it. Mooncakes and tea have always been customary. So, does mooncake match wine? What kind of wine is good for eating mooncakes?
What kind of wine is good for mooncakes?
Cantonese style moon cake: According to the taste, there are two categories of salty and sweet. According to the moon cake stuffing: lotus seed moon cake, bean paste moon cake, Wuren moon cake, fruit moon cake, pork moon cake and so on.
Savoury moon cakes are recommended: medium-bodied red wines, such as tannins, medium acidity, and when combined with mooncakes, can dissolve the fat taste of the oil, but also add flavor to the wine. High acid can also remove the fatty feeling brought by the meat in the moon cake.
Sweet Mooncake Wine Pairing: Semi-sweet or sweet sparkling wine not only increases the sweet taste of mooncakes, but also refreshes the acidity to remove the sweetness of mooncakes.
Su-style moon cake: made of wheat flour, sugar, edible vegetable oil or lard, water, etc., wheat flour, edible vegetable oil or lard, made by meringue, stuffing, molding, baking process.
Recommended with: semi-dry or semi-sweet wine, sweet and sour taste and crispy moon cakes blend together to bring a pleasant taste, the original moon cake brings thirst to ease.
Beijing-style moon cake: originated in Beijing and Tianjin and surrounding areas. It has a certain market in the north. Its main characteristics are sweetness and leather filling ratio. The general leather filling ratio is 4:6. The sesame oil is reused. The taste is sweet and the taste is crisp. There are mainly red moon cakes, white moon cakes, and five moon cakes.
Wine pairing advice: semi-sweet sparkling wine, semi-sweet and alcohol-free sparkling wine.
Tide moon cake: It is a traditional cake name in Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong Province. It is a meringue cake and is one of the four moon cake genres in China. The main characteristic of the tidal moon cake (round) is the thin pastry, oil. It is not fat, sweet and not greasy. It can be divided into mung bean, black bean, crystal, purple and so on according to the type of stuffing. The kernel includes egg yolk or seafood (no kernel).
Wine pairing advice: semi-sweet French wine.
Non-traditional moon cake
Compared with traditional moon cakes, non-traditional moon cakes have lower fat and sugar content, and focus on the nutrition of moon cake ingredients and the innovation of moon cake making process. The most common and popular non-traditional moon cakes on the market today are the following.
Snowy moon cake: It is characterized by the fact that the cake skin does not need to be roasted, and it is eaten after freezing. It is mainly made of transparent milky white skin, but also has purple, green, red, yellow and other colors.
Wine pairing advice: French semi-dry or ice wine.
Ice Cream Mooncake: Made entirely of ice cream, just the mooncake mold, although it is Mid-Autumn Festival, but the heat is not completely removed, delicious and cool, is also a consumer choice.
Wine pairing advice: ice wine.
Fruit and vegetable moon cake: It is characterized by the main stuffing of fruits and vegetables, soft stuffing and different flavors. The fillings include cantaloupe, pineapple, lychee, strawberry, melon, taro, ebony, orange, etc., together with juice or jam, so it is more Fresh and sweet flavor.
Wine pairing advice: sweet, alcohol-free sparkling wine.
Seafood moon cake: It is a more expensive moon cake, with abalone, shark's fin, seaweed, scorpion, etc. The taste is slightly savory and sweet, and it is famous for its sweetness.
Wine pairing suggestions: Merlot, Grenache, or mineral-rich white wine with less tannins.
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