Would you like some cheese with that w(h)ine?

Perhaps cheese and wine don't go so well together. New Scientist recently reported on a study suggesting that cheese suppresses the flavors and aromas in wine...all of them, in fact, except for buttery aroma, which itself is a component of cheese. The study authors, who recruited trained wine tasters as test subjects (and presumably threw a big ol' wine and cheese party; I wonder where they get their funding?), hypothesize that cheese proteins may bind the flavor molecules in the wine, or that the fat in the cheese may coat the mouth. Whatever the answer, my wife has her own opinon on the matter: "Science be damned, I'll trust my tastebuds."