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Test it yourself. Try a big red wine at the steak house. Taste it first. Then try some steak. Then taste the wine. If you get a fattier steak like a nice prime ribeye or porterhouse, notice how the fat changes the taste of the wine. If you get the wine earlier than the steak, try it with bread. It won't taste as good as with the steak. If you get the wine early enough and get something more acidic like a salad of some sort with some biting dressing the wine won't taste as good as with the steak. So try a cabernet or something, and pay attention to how the taste changes based on the other things you are eating. If you get one with some tannin, the mouth drying taste and feel, notice how that changes with some meat with fat in it. Once you start noticing stuff like that you will enjoy it more. I am no expert on wine and food pairing by any means. But pay attention to how things taste before and after the food. Or try it out at home first. Get a bottle of $10 cabernet and taste it. Then taste it with plain bread or a cracker. Then taste it with a piece of cheese. Then try chocolate. yep, cabernet and chocolate work.