White Wine Pairing | Giggly Grapes

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.

Albariño Wine Pairing: The Foods It Was Built For

19/03/2024

A platter of oysters with lemon beside a glass of crisp white wine

Albariño is a seafood wine first and a flexible one second. Here is what it matches best, what to avoid, how to serve it, and an honest pick when none is in stock.

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

13/03/2024

Grilled octopus on a plate beside a glass of rose wine

Grilled octopus is lean, salty and smoky, which rules out tannin. Here are the wines that work, what to avoid, and one stock-checked 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.

Alfredo Sauce Wine Pairing: What Cuts Through All That Cream

09/03/2024

A glass of white wine beside a bowl of fettuccine in creamy sauce with parmesan

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.

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.

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.

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.