pizza is hot and has a lot of fats, oils, carbs. White wine is usually cooled, crisp, acidic, and/or effervescence and most can be a little tart, which helps cut the fattiness and oils of the pizza. That is the complementary aspect of it, it is a classic acidic vs fatty balance. Pizza is warm comforting, the wine is cool and refreshing. Also the acidity in the red sauce provides a nice common element between the two, helping to bind the flavors.
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Because both are delicious
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Because that red sauce is sweet and with the cheese makes for a light flavor
Pile on the toppings to up the umami and it goes way better with a red
Colour and flavour have nothing to do with each other.
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Not true.
Red wines will be tannic from leaving the skins in the wine, whites lack this.
Theres more, but that's a start.
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