Chicken Shawarma Wine Pairing: Garlic, Pickles and Spice
The chicken is the easy part. Garlic sauce, pickled turnip and the spice rub decide the bottle. Dry rose first, chilled Grenache second, plus one stocked pick.
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Chardonnay Food Pairing: What to Eat With Oaked and Unoaked Chardonnay
Roast chicken, buttery seafood, creamy pasta or a plate of prawns: what to eat with Chardonnay, why oaked and unoaked need different dinners, and what to avoid.
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Rotisserie Chicken and Wine: What to Pour Tonight
A hot supermarket chook wants an unoaked chardonnay or a chilled pinot noir. The salt and crisp skin are doing the work, and here is how to match them.
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Butter Chicken Wine Pairing: What to Pour (and What to Avoid)
Butter chicken is creamy, sweet and gently spiced, which rules out big reds. Here are the whites that work, the ones to avoid, and one bottle to try tonight.
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Wine Pairing With Filipino Food: What to Pour With Adobo and More
Filipino food is built on sour and salt, not chilli. Match the souring agent instead of the meat and adobo, sinigang and lechon all get easy.
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Chicken Tikka Masala Wine Pairing: It Is Not About the Heat
Everyone pairs this dish as though it were a vindaloo. It is the mildest thing on the menu, built from cream and tomato to fix dry chicken, and that changes the wine completely.
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Alfredo Sauce Wine Pairing: What Cuts Through All That Cream
A dry white with high acid and little oak is the best wine for Alfredo sauce. One cup carries 39 grams of fat and 1,404 milligrams of sodium.
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Lemon Chicken Wine Pairing: Two Dishes, Two Different Wines
Battered takeaway lemon chicken and roast Greek lemon chicken are not the same dish and do not want the same wine. Here is the split, plus one stocked dry Riesling.
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Best Wine With Roast Chicken: Match the Skin, Not the Bird
Roast chicken is the most flexible main in the house. The wine is really matching the browned skin and the gravy, and that changes what you should pour.
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