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Spaghetti alla Carbonara
Carbonara is built on rich egg yolk and salty, fatty guanciale, finished with a storm of black pepper, so the wine has to cut the fat, stand up to the salt and meet that pepper. A crisp, high-acid white is the spine of it. Avoid oak and tannin.
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