wine rules. wine rules?

GQ has a little blurb about wines every month. This month's talks about general rules for what wine matches what food: flavor intensity wants to match (strong with strong, mild with mild), spicy food wants sweet wine, fatty food wants acidic wine.

Reading that made me think of pizza. It's strongly flavored, spicy, and fatty. So it wants a wine that's strongly flavored, sweet, and acidic. But instead of wine, my thoughts turned to Coke: distinct strong flavor, very sweet, and very acidic, all three. Turns out the perfect drink for pizza is Coke after all!