Chapter 4
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Food pairings
Three rules, and Torrontés rewards all of them:
- Serve it cold. Properly chilled, the aromatics sing and the freshness sharpens. Lukewarm Torrontés is where its reputation goes to die.
- Drink it young. This is a wine made for its fragrant, fruity youth — reach for the most recent vintage rather than cellaring it.
- Feed it spice and salt. That aromatic-but-dry profile is a gift at the table. It's the classic match for Argentina's empanadas salteñas, and it shines with goat cheese, ceviche, and the kind of fragrant, lightly spicy Asian dishes that flatten most other whites.
