The smoke, spice and tomato aspects in chili can make it a difficult dish to pair with wine– sometimes it just makes more sense to break out a beer. Many wine experts suggest reaching for white, rather than red, wine to temper the spice (such as an Alsatian Riesling, Chenin Blanc, or Champagne). Yet, on a cold winter day red wine and a bowl of chili seem made for each other. The red wines below stood up nicely to chili during our taste test; they are not massive, over-powering reds but rather classy, stand-up wines that work very well with food.

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