{"id":1018,"date":"2015-11-05T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/pairing-wine-with-balderson-cheese\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:40:45","slug":"pairing-wine-with-balderson-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/pairing-wine-with-balderson-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Pairing Wine with Balderson Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2010\/53.jpg\" alt=\"Pairing Wine with Balderson Cheese\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The finest Ontario and British Columbia wines make the best marriages with various Balderson mild and aged cheddars.<\/p>\n<p>The cheese flatters the wine, and the wine mellows the cheese. The older the cheese, the more flavourful and intense the wine is needed to match it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cheddar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheese.ca\/en\/cheddar.asp?cate=Premium\">Balderson Mild<\/a>: a gentle, buttery cheese that would go well with a dry sparkling wine or a Sauvignon Blanc, unoaked Chardonnay or a dry rose. Avoid full-bodied reds with tannin or oak-aged Chardonnays whose flavour will overpower the cheese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ontario: Chateau des Charmes Sauvignon Blanc<br \/>\nBritish Columbia: Calona Private Reserve Semillon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 383px; height: 243px;\" src=\"\/html\/uploads\/image\/cheesebalderson(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cheddar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheese.ca\/en\/cheddar.asp?cheddar_sort=50&amp;cate=PREMIUM\">Balderson Extra Old<\/a>: a Cheddar aged for up to eighteen months takes on a lively bite that requires a well-structured red wine to balance its intensity of flavour. A Canadian Merlot with its ripe blueberry-blackberry flavour will fill the bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ontario: Cave Spring Merlot<br \/>\nBritish Columbia: Tin Horn Creek Merlot<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cheddar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheese.ca\/en\/cheddar.asp?cheddar_sort=80&amp;cate=PREMIUM%20AGED\">Balderson Heritage <\/a>(3 Year\/5 Year): a rich spectrum of nutty, salty, fruity flavours that linger on the palate cry out for as full-bodied and as rich a red wine as you can find.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ontario: Lakeview Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon<br \/>\nBritish Columbia: Mission Hill Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Reserve<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cheddar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheese.ca\/en\/cheddar.asp?cheddar_sort=100&amp;cate=PREMIUM%20AGED\">Balderson Heritage 6 Year<\/a>: the most intensely flavoured Cheddar, sharp and zesty. The best match is a ruby port or a sweet sherry. Only a few Canadian table wines have the power and concentration to stand beside this magnificent cheese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ontario: Thirty Bench Merlot Reserve<br \/>\nBritish Columbia: Nichol Vineyard Syrah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finest Ontario and British Columbia wines make the best marriages with various Balderson mild and aged cheddars. The cheese flatters the wine, and the wine mellows the cheese. The older the cheese, the more flavourful and intense the wine is needed to match it. The Cheddar Balderson Mild: a gentle, buttery cheese that would go well with a dry sparkling wine or a Sauvignon Blanc, unoaked Chardonnay or a dry rose. Avoid full-bodied reds with tannin or oak-aged Chardonnays whose flavour will overpower the cheese. The Wines Ontario: Chateau des Charmes Sauvignon Blanc British Columbia: Calona Private Reserve Semillon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,214,1105,77,10,393,107,372,207,991,473,394,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-wines-wine-region","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-canadian-wine-wine-region","category-wine-cheese-pairing","category-food-wine-pairing","category-merlot","category-ontario-wine","category-red-wine","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-semillon","category-syrah","category-white-wine","category-wine-cheddar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25791,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/25791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}