Tomato salad

A good tomato salad: ripe summer tomatoes, olive oil, salt, basil, and perhaps a little red onion or balsamic. The tomato acidity is the dominant element, sharp and bright in good fruit, the olive oil adds fat, the basil adds herbal freshness, and the salt intensifies everything. The wine must sit alongside the tomato acidity rather than being stripped by it, which eliminates most wines with moderate or low acidity. Tannin clashes immediately with raw tomato.