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.
Read moreBest Wine for French Onion Soup: Why Sweetness Is the Problem
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.
Read moreLemon 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.
Read moreBest 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.
Read moreTiramisu and Wine: What to Pour (and What to Avoid)
Tiramisu needs a wine sweeter than it is. Here are the styles that work with coffee, cocoa and mascarpone, the ones to avoid, and one Barossa sticky to try.
Read moreAglio e Olio Wine Pairing: The Pasta With No Acid in It
Every other pasta sauce brings its own acidity. This one brings garlic, oil, chilli and salt, and nothing to balance them, so the wine has to do all the work.
Read moreWine With Feta and Tomatoes: What to Pour and Avoid
Tomatoes are sharper than they look and feta is very salty. Sauvignon blanc, dry riesling and dry rose are the whites with enough acid to cope.
Read moreWaipara Valley Wine Region: New Zealand’s Riesling Heartland
An hour north of Christchurch, sheltered by low hills and built on limestone clay. What Waipara tastes like, which cellar doors are actually open, and when to go.
Read moreAustralian Riesling: Why It Tastes of Lime and Ages for Decades
Australian Riesling is dry, not sweet. Why it tastes of lime, how Clare and Eden differ, how long it really lasts and what to eat with it.
Read moreClare Valley Wine Region: Riesling Country, Two Hours North
Australia’s best Riesling country, the valley that talked the world into screwcaps, five cellar doors and a 35 kilometre trail you can ride between them.
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