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The wine you drink with the food you eat
The wine you drink with the food you eat
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Book Introduction
“What goes well with this wine?”

Tteokbokki, dumplings, pork belly, chicken, kimbap, and pufferfish
Bossam, hamburgers, potato chips, sandwiches, strawberries…
Wicked Wine Formula for Pairing with Everyday Food

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There is a wine shop that selects three bottles of 'Wine of the Month' every month and introduces them along with everyday foods that are good to pair with them.
The place where everyday wine buyers who don't show off in front of wine sincerely visit is 'Wicked Wife' in Seongsu-dong.
"The Wine You Eat" is a masterpiece that contains the special wine formula of author Lee Young-ji, who is the CEO of Wicked Wife and has been publishing wine content for a long time.
He is famous for giving customers looking for delicious wine easy answers like 'Tteokbokki Sparkling, Sundae Red, Mandu White'.
If you don't know that the food you eat with it can lead to amazing pairing results in your mouth, such as stimulating, neutralizing, cleansing, accompanying, elevating, and even destroying the taste, even an expensive wine can taste like a disaster.


For those who want to create memorable moments with ordinary everyday foods like beer, soju, and makgeolli, wine is no longer an area to be approached through study.
So, this book explains wine knowledge in an easy-to-understand way, using the weather, season, mood, and the taste of food that goes with it, rather than simply memorizing it.
Beginning with a discussion of seasonal foods that stimulate the salivary glands, the story naturally progresses to a series of wine comments. Even those who are not connoisseurs of wine will find themselves eager to join the adventure of finding the answer to a delicious pairing.
It goes without saying that you should learn the basic knowledge of grape names and wine without having to study hard.
If you want to recall the tomato sparkling wine you had with your hamburger last weekend, or if you want to confidently say, “Hey, I don’t know, I can drink it. Just eat it with what I was eating!” after experiencing the rising pairing of Sundae Red, I recommend this book, “Wine with What I Was Eating.”
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Author's Note

Chapter 1: The Relationship Between Tteokbokki and Wine

Pairing entry point
Pairing Understanding
Pairing experience

Chapter 2: Pairing Study

Defining the taste of tteokbokki
Understanding Sour, Salty, and Spicy Tastes
What would the taste be like if you ate tteokbokki with wine?
20 Grape Names You Should Know Before You Die

Chapter 3: Everyday Wine Practice

April Pairing
01 Bibigo Gunmandu + Mandu White
02 Basic Kimbap + Sparkling Kimbap
03 Galbijjim + Galbijjim Red

May Pairing
01 Green Olive + Olive White
02 Samgyeopsal + Samgyeopsal Red
03 Grilled Beef + Beef Red

June Pairing
01 Fried Chicken + Sparkling Fried Chicken
02 Corn on the cob + Corn White
03 Watermelon + Watermelon Sparkling

July Pairing
01 Crazy Tteokbokki + Tteokbokki Sparkling
02 Octopus Potato Salad + Octopus White
03 Sundae + Sundae Red

August Pairing
01 Fish Ceviche + Ceviche White
02 Peach with Cheese + Peach White
03 Cold Pork Pairing + Cold Pork White

September Pairing
01 Original Pocari Chips + Pocari Chips Sparkling
02 Autumn Crab Stew + Crab Stew White
03 Jikoba Charcoal Chicken + Jikoba Pino

October Pairing
01 Hamburger + Tomato Sparkling
02 Cream Pasta + Butter White
03 Brie Cheese + Brie Cheese Red
04 Lamb Skewers + Lamb Skewers Red

November Pairing
01 Petrification + Oyster Sparkling
02 Arugula Salad + Salad White
03 Sushi + Sushi White
04 Kimchi Jjim + Kimchi Jjim Riesling
05 Dongpa Pork + Dongpa Pork Red

December Pairing
01 Defense Meeting + Defense Sparkling
02 Gambas al Ajillo + Gambas White
03 Home-style Steak + Steak Red
04 Stollen + Cookie Pot

January Pairing
01 Strawberry + Strawberry Sparkling
02 Pickled Peach + Truffle White
03 Bone Stew + Bone Stew Red

February Pairing
01 Old-fashioned Whole Chicken + Whole Chicken Sparkling
02 Bossam + Bossam White
03 Dumplings + Dumpling Red

TIP Another compilation of everyday foods that pair well with everyday wines.

Chapter 4 Techniques

[Temperature] If you want to be unhappy, drink lukewarm sparkling water.
[Bushone] Emergency! There's a problem with the cork.
[Swirling] Gently waking up a sleeping wine and making it yawn
[Aroma] Wine Label
[TIP] A more detailed explanation of wine labels
[Acidity] Adding an adjective to the name of a wine
[Structure] If you were to express the overall aura of the wine,
[Overall Impression] My own way of appreciating wine by combining and explaining it myself.

Chapter 5: Cool Wine and Muumul

Q&A

[Appendix] Mock Exam on Food and Wine

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Into the book
Fortunately, what we're looking for isn't gold, but wine that pairs well with tteokbokki.
Define the taste of the food, set in your head what role you want the wine to play in that, and choose from a variety of countries, regions, and varieties.
The process of selecting wine and exploring it through practice.
That's why I call this process an 'adventure'.
If you keep searching, you will surely find a delicious island with a red sparkling waterfall that goes well with tteokbokki and a plate of tteokbokki floating on a sailboat.
As long as you don't quit this adventure.
--- From "Defining the Taste of Tteokbokki"

The pinnacle of pairing is the status-elevating pairing.
It's the same reason the public loves Cinderella dramas: an ordinary, unremarkable protagonist meets a wonderful partner and lives an unexpected Cinderella life.
It is a name that metaphorically explains that the fantastic encounter that was possible only in fairy tales is also possible in wine pairing.
If we can discover this kind of encounter in the food and wine we eat and drink in our daily lives, the power of that pairing to make a meal memorable becomes a joy beyond imagination.
--- From "What will the taste be like if you eat tteokbokki with wine?"

Even without special study of wine, everyone has a basic sense of what goes well with delicious food and what goes well with the ingredients.
It's not necessarily true that only those who have studied gastronomy can understand and express the series, connections, and results of taste.
How do you know that?
At a table with a variety of foods and wines, you can see the order in which foods and wines disappear the fastest.
That's the most delicious combination.
Even though we don't know the name of the grape, we definitely feel very good about it.
--- From "Basic Kimbap + Sparkling Kimbap"

Samgyeopsal has many elements, but the key is the moment when, after a few bites, the lard coats your tongue, making it feel slightly greasy. Just then, take a sip of Samgyeopsal Red, and the refreshing, raspberry-like liquid cleanses your palate.
Ah, it's refreshing.
It will help you feel refreshed and ready to eat the next piece of meat.
When food and wine come together like this, a Möbius strip-like pairing occurs, where the two complement each other without a pause button.
--- From "Samgyeopsal + Samgyeopsal Red"

Wanting to study wine is like wanting to buy it yourself without a salesperson's recommendation.
So, for those of you who are studying, don't go around in circles, but memorize the most important countries, regions, and grape varieties from around the world.
And during that time, drink only that wine.
This way, the grape variety will be imprinted on your tongue.
France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, South Africa.
If you look at the continents, you'll realize that there are only ten tables of contents.
--- From "Refreshing Wine_Q&A"

Publisher's Review
“If you eat together, this is the result!”
Everyday wine pairing practice that makes ordinary meals extraordinary


We live in an age where we can have hundreds of thousands of foods delivered at dawn, yet we can't always know which wine to choose or which cheese to pair with it.
As a wine expert who has met students and customers for a long time, author Youngji Lee, the CEO of 'Wicked Wife', opened a new door to everyday wine pairing by presenting Tteokbokki Sparkling, Mandu White, and Sundae Red as the answer.
There are some standard answers like 'red for meat, white for fish', but in Korea, pairing is closer to seasoning pairing than ingredient pairing.
So, the formula was created that if you eat fried chicken sparkling with seasoned chicken, the wine will die, and if you eat tteokbokki sparkling, you should eat it with Yeopgi tteokbokki or Sinjeon tteokbokki, not Gungjung tteokbokki, which is a soy sauce-based dish.

The author, who defines himself as “a person who sells the distinct taste of the month through seasonal wines,” carefully suggests everyday foods that pair well with three bottles of “Wine of the Month” each month, as if selecting a Yeouiju.
The wine that goes with the things we eat every day, such as potato chips, hamburgers, kimchi stew, old-fashioned fried chicken, bossam, strawberries, watermelon, pork belly, sushi, and tteokbokki, is the most delicious wine.


Pairing is an adventure in finding the right wine for tteokbokki.
Let's drink wine together, eating together for a long time!


“First, define the taste of tteokbokki, seasoned chicken, and kimbap, then hypothesize what role you want the wine to play when paired with it, then find the right wine based on country, region, and variety, and finally, practice and discover it while eating and drinking together.
“I call this process an ‘adventure’ rather than a ‘tasting.’”
-From the text

"The Wine You Eat and the Food You Eat" introduces the author's special wine formula, which he has devoted himself to wine pairing for a long time, in a way that is easier to understand than anyone else's.
It's full of know-how for today's young readers who find studying wine difficult, but want to choose and buy wine that fits their budget.
If you want to experience a cleansing pairing that cleanses your palate, coated in pork belly fat, with a wine as refreshing as raspberry juice, then this is the book for you.
Because wine pairing is the formula everyone has been looking for to make ordinary food taste even better.


This is not a simple wine essay that conveys a personal wine experience.
Although it doesn't look like a thick wine theory book, this book is designed to help you build a solid foundation in wine and acquire the most practical knowledge and sensibilities needed to drink wine.
As you follow the book's suggested delicious pairings, you'll gradually gain knowledge about countries, regions, and grape varieties—the fundamentals of wine study.
We hope that you will be able to test your skills through the 'Mock Test of Food and Wine' included in the appendix and participate in the fun pairing game.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 9, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 252 pages | 370g | 135*193*17mm
- ISBN13: 9791193406090
- ISBN10: 1193406099

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