Karen and I recently took a fun introductory wine class (The Elements of Wine) at Astor Wines. They’ve got a really great setup over there:
(Reminded me a bit of Kitchen Stadium)
This was the lineup of food we’d be pairing with our wines. Loved the interactive voting setup (see remote on right) as much as I love the prosciutto.
Towards the end of the class they gave us a printout with different wines plotted on two axes alongside foods that they pair well with for both red and white wines (PDF).
Apart from being a really useful tool when learning about different wines (I’m cropping the images and syncing them to my phone for use on the go), I thought the visualization was well-executed and made a complex set of information and relationships pretty clear.
I highly recommend you check out all of their wine and food classes. They make a great gift, too.
