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Best Wine With Roast Chicken: Match the Skin, Not the Bird

02/03/2024

Golden roast chicken on a board beside a glass of white wine

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.

Tiramisu and Wine: What to Pour (and What to Avoid)

02/03/2024

Slice of tiramisu beside a glass of golden dessert wine

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.

Aglio e Olio Wine Pairing: The Pasta With No Acid in It

02/03/2024

Spaghetti aglio e olio in a bowl beside a glass of chilled dry white wine

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.

Wine With Feta and Tomatoes: What to Pour and Avoid

26/02/2024

Tomato and feta salad beside a chilled glass of white wine

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.

Waipara Valley Wine Region: New Zealand’s Riesling Heartland

20/12/2023

Vineyard rows on limestone hillsides with distant snow-capped mountains

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.

Australian Riesling: Why It Tastes of Lime and Ages for Decades

09/12/2023

Glass of pale Riesling beside fresh limes on slate

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.

Clare Valley Wine Region: Riesling Country, Two Hours North

08/12/2023

Clare Valley vineyard rows over low hills with a stone cottage

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.