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Here's where to find out all about my latest discoveries - reports on wine matching dinners and tastings, meals out, experiments at home and general advice on the art of food and drink matching

Recent articles

  Pairing Pinot Noir and lamb
Aug 18, 2010
A report on the fascinating food and wine matching workshop that was held at the International Pinot Noir Celebration in Oregon last month which revealed more about wine pairing techniques than you might guess from the title of the event
  Beer vs wine: experiments with cheddar
Aug 11, 2010
Further evidence that red wine isn't the only - or even the best - pairing with cheese
  Pitch perfect pairings at Providores
Aug 4, 2010
Not all wine dinners do favours to the winemakers they feature. This one, which hosted Kiwi winemakers Pegasus Bay, really did
  A modern Tuscan wine matched with molecular cuisine
Jun 9, 2010
I went to a fascinating tasting at the chefs' conference Identita this week of a new wine called Coevo blended from grapes from Chianti and Maremma and matched with a series of modern Italian dishes from one of the country's leading experimental chefs Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana in Modena
  Pairing Indian food with the biodynamic wines of Bonny Doon
Jun 5, 2010
I have to confess I found it pretty hard to concentrate on the finer nuances of the food and wine combinations at the recent Cinnamon Club dinner. But when the speaker is the discursive Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon and you're sitting next to him that's no great surprise.
  A menu for riesling
May 20, 2010
Earlier this week I was involved in judging a selection of South African rieslings at High Timber in London and afterwards we had a three course lunch that had been designed to match with them. This is what we ate and drank.
  Twitmatching #2: which wines and beers to pair with asparagus
May 19, 2010
This month I asked my fellow Tweeters to tackle the subject of wine with asparagus - supposed to be a tricky combination, but as @cuvee_corner put it “Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the difficulty.” (It isn't just you. There are plenty of options!)
  How to match machas
May 5, 2010
One of the tasks the 12 semi-finalists at the recent World’s Best Sommelier competition in Santiago, Chile had to face was to suggest a red wine to match with a dish of machas, the local pink clams. Not the most obvious pairing so how did they cope?
  For a perfect match a wine needs to provide an element that’s missing in a dish
May 4, 2010

So think like a cook rather than like a sommelier!
  A champagne dinner fit for sommeliers
Apr 30, 2010
One of the aspects of the World’s Best Sommelier competition I hadn’t really thought about is how on earth you create a menu for a roomful of sommeliers. And choose wine pairings they won’t be sniffy about. One way is to impress them with large format bottles and old vintages which is the route competition sponsor Moet et Chandon took . . .
 
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