Each month members of the Court of Master Sommeliers, an international association of wine experts, suggest wine pairings for popular menu items. Here, they offer up both premium and bargain wines that complement such dishes as shrimp stir-fry, pasta puttanesca and fish tacos. The sommeliers do not represent or have a financial interest in any of their recommendations.

WAYNE BELDING, MS, consultant, Vintage Advantage, Boulder, Colo.

I recently returned from a vacation to London, Paris and Rome where a friend and I hit all the usual tourist spots. We spent a sunny afternoon people-watching near the Eiffel Tower, we wandered the Colosseum and the Roman Forum with the ghosts of ancient gladiators and senators, and we whizzed under London Bridge on our Thames water taxi.


And we ate.


God, did we eat.