First wine Dinner Pairing

For dinner we had steak, pasta with Alfredo sauce, broccoli, and two flavors of ice cream sandwiches for desert. First off the apothic red was paired with everything. I did not like this wine with the steak. It did nothing. It was just drinking wine and eating steak, nothing complimented by each other. However, the apothic red went well with both the broccoli and the Alfredo pasta. The broccoli detracted from the bitterness, and the pastahad a weird taste that I have trouble describing, but I though it made the wine better. Next the Beaujolais. This I had mixed feelings about with the steak, the berry flavors didnt pair well, but there was a nice peppery flavor I got with the steak. The creamy flavor from the Alfredo went nicely with the berry flavor from the Beaujolais. With the broccoli, it didn't do anything. neglected to bring any flavors out. Now the Little Bosco was a dessert wine so we had this with two flavors of ice cream sandwiches. The first was the mint flavored ice cream sandwiches. Here the mint made the wine taste very very weird, and not in a good way. However, the Little Bosco with the cookies n'cream flavor paired very, very nicely. The vanilla flavors from both exploded and was a perfect dessert.