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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.

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.

Bruschetta Wine Pairing: The Tomato Is Not the Problem

14/03/2024

Tomato bruschetta on toasted sourdough beside a glass of pale dry rose wine

Bruschetta is raw oil, raw garlic and raw tomato on hot toast, and it breaks more wine than it should. Here are the three styles that work, and why.

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.

Wine Pairing With Lentils: The Tannin Problem Nobody Mentions

12/03/2024

A bowl of braised green lentils beside a glass of light red wine

Lentils are not the blank canvas everyone claims. They bring their own drying astringency, mostly in the skins, and almost no fat to soften it. That changes the wine.

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.

Wine With Salami: What Fat, Salt and That Tang Really Need

10/03/2024

Sliced salami on a board with olives and bread beside a glass of red wine

Salami is fermented, not just cured, so it brings its own acidity. That is why Sangiovese, Barbera and dry Lambrusco work and a big Cabernet does not.