Pair coffee with cheese: Tips to bring out the best in a good cheese

Coffee pairs well with cheese, but the taste of both should complement each other rather than compete. — Photos: CHRISTIN KLOSE/dpa

Cheese and wine sounds like a perfect match. Yet red wines and wines matured in oak barrels don’t go at all well with cheese.

“The tannins don’t harmonise with the cheese,” says Alexandre Centeleghe, a Swiss wine expert.