This should be expected. Most new world wines like the ones you mentioned taste amazing as isolated sipping wines, but sometimes compete with food rather than

This should be expected. Most new world wines like the ones you mentioned taste amazing as isolated sipping wines, but sometimes compete with food rather than complement it. Most European wines shine when consumed with food, but they often do less well as sipping wines. Note that these are broad-stroke comments, there are always exceptions, blah blah blah. That said, any skilled sommelier can serve you the archetypes as examples.