White Wine Pairing | Giggly Grapes

Best Wine With Chinese Food: Salt, Sugar and Chilli Sorted

02/05/2024

Steamer of dumplings beside a glass of white wine

Chinese cooking throws salt, sugar, chilli and fat at your glass all at once. Here is the one bottle that survives a shared table, and why alcohol makes chilli worse.

Best Wine With Salmon: Grilled, Baked, Smoked and Cold

01/05/2024

A glass of light red wine beside a seared salmon fillet on a dark slate plate

Salmon is an oily fish that behaves more like chicken than snapper, so it can take a light red. Here is what to pour for every way you cook it.

What Wine Goes With Ravioli? A Filling-by-Filling Guide

25/04/2024

Plate of ravioli beside a glass of white wine on a timber table

Ravioli is a shape, not a dish. Here is the right wine for cheese, meat, mushroom, pumpkin and seafood fillings, plus what to avoid.

Seafood Risotto and Wine: What to Pour (and What to Cook With)

24/04/2024

Bowl of seafood risotto with prawns beside a glass of white wine

Creamy, salty and delicate all at once. The crisp whites that suit seafood risotto, the ones that ruin it, which wine to put in the pan, and one bottle that does both jobs.

Best Cheese With Orange Wine: What to Serve and Skip

23/04/2024

Aged gouda, comte and washed rind cheese beside a glass of amber orange wine

Aged gouda, comte and washed rind cheeses are the best match for orange wine. The full board, what to avoid, and a bottle to try tonight.

Rotisserie Chicken and Wine: What to Pour Tonight

10/04/2024

A rotisserie chicken on a board beside a glass of white wine

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.

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

09/04/2024

Steamed asparagus spears and a glass of chilled white wine

Asparagus can make wine taste metallic. Here is why, plus the dry whites that work, what to avoid, and one stock-checked Australian bottle to try tonight.

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.