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Wine Pairing With Roasted Vegetables: What to Pour (and What to Avoid)

06/04/2024

Glass of red wine beside a tray of roasted pumpkin, carrots, onion and sprouts

Roasting makes vegetables sweet and smoky, which changes what wine works. Grenache, Gamay, Tempranillo and Riesling lead; big reds and thin whites do not.

Wine Pairing With Potato Soup: What to Pour (and What to Avoid)

03/04/2024

Bowl of creamy potato soup with a glass of Chardonnay

The best wine pairing with potato soup is a lightly oaked Chardonnay, with Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc close behind. What works, what to avoid and one bottle to try.

Best Wine With Fish and Chips: What Cuts Through the Batter

01/04/2024

Battered fish and chips on paper beside a glass of sparkling wine

You are not pairing wine with the fish. You are pairing it with oil, salt and vinegar. Sparkling first, dry Riesling second, plus one stocked Australian pick.

Butter Chicken Wine Pairing: What to Pour (and What to Avoid)

25/03/2024

Bowl of butter chicken beside a glass of white wine on a timber table

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.

Wine With Seafood: What to Pour for Every Kind of Fish

20/03/2024

Glass of crisp white wine beside a platter of oysters, prawns and grilled fish

Crisp, dry and unoaked covers nearly all seafood. What to pour for oysters, prawns, grilled salmon and fish and chips, and why iron is the real culprit.

Wine Pairing With Filipino Food: What to Pour With Adobo and More

18/03/2024

Bowl of Filipino pork adobo with rice and a glass of red wine

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.

Barossa Valley Wine Region: Old Vines, Big Shiraz and Where to Start

16/03/2024

Ancient gnarled Shiraz vine in a Barossa Valley vineyard at sunset

The Barossa has the oldest vines on earth, and a charter that sorts them into four tiers by age. What the region tastes like, five cellar doors and one bottle.

Chicken Tikka Masala Wine Pairing: It Is Not About the Heat

11/03/2024

Chicken tikka masala in a bowl with naan beside a glass of chilled dry white wine

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.

Best Wine for French Onion Soup: Why Sweetness Is the Problem

05/03/2024

A glass of light red wine beside a bowl of French onion soup with melted cheese

A light, high acid red like Gamay is the best wine for French onion soup. The problem is not the beef stock, it is the sugar in all those onions.

Lemon Chicken Wine Pairing: Two Dishes, Two Different Wines

04/03/2024

Roast lemon chicken with lemon halves beside a glass of white wine

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.