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Weekend Wine Matching - NEW
Steak that doesn’t need a red
Matching fish soup
Wines to match Angela Hartnett’s Easter menu
Wine matches for scallops
What to drink with venison and chocolate sauce
Which wines - or beers - pair best with cooked cheese?
What to drink with chicken
Cooking with beer
Wine and asparagus revisited
Wines - and other drinks - to match recipes from the Ottolenghi Cookbook
Beers and ciders to match recipes from Hix Oyster and Chop House
Wines to match Gordon Ramsay’s seafood stews
Which wine to match with Rowley Leigh’s roast duck and peas
Wines for some tricky Chinese dishes
Restaurant Reviews
A trio of new London restaurant openings
O Bontemps - oh, bliss!
L’Autre Pied - but is it quite ‘autre’ enough?
Le Café Anglais - a haven for Francophiles
Sake no Hana - the new Nobu
Hibiscus - Bosi is one of the two London chefs to watch this year, according to Michelin
Fairyhill - a reminder of the virtues of the country house hotel
Bord’eaux - misplaced apostrophe, misfiring food
Le Temps au Temps - one of Paris’s chic-est new-wave bistros
Alle Testiere - best restaurant in Venice or most over-hyped?
Events and Deals
Up to 20% off subscriptions to www.winetravelguides.com
Match of the Week
Cave aged gruyere and dry oloroso
Butternut squash and barrel-fermented Chardonnay
Salmon and Pinot Noir
Sloe gin and Stilton
Thai fishcakes and witbier
Foie gras and Sauternes
Scrambled eggs and sparkling wine
Thai beef salad and off-dry riesling
Manzanilla and tapas
Aubergine (eggplant) and Zinfandel
Cheese fondue and Chasselas
Sushi and Genmaicha (Japanese green tea with roasted rice)
Dark chocolate and Cherry Heering
Savoury pancakes and sparkling cider
Fairtrade chocolate brownies with Fairtrade black coffee
Roast lamb with a Douro red
Ham and Barossa semillon
Pickled herrings with lager and akvavit
Goats’ cheese and Sauvignon Blanc
Prosecco and panettone
Rabbit (or chicken) with spring vegetables and viognier
Salade Niçoise and Rosé
Pork pie and pale ale
Charcuterie and Beaujolais
Sparkling wine and spicy snacks
Greco di Tufo with grilled seabass
Witbier and asparagus
Bacchus and cucumber
Calves' liver and Marcillac
Normandy cider and creamy sauces
Cherry beer and cheesecake
Bardolino Chiaretto and seafood pasta
Pastis and olives
Red wine and peaches
Chicken caesar salad and blonde ale
Margaritas, tacos and tostadas
Chicken, lemon and olive tagine with Rioja reserva
Tuscan bean soup and Sangiovese
Grouse and Chambolle-Musigny
Chicken pot pie and perry
Jerk chicken and rum punch
Mackerel en escabeche with manzanilla sherry
Godello and seafood
Steak pie and strong ale
Beetroot soup and British pinot noir
Roast venison with tapenade and a modern Spanish red
Filet ‘sliders’ and pinot noir
Double IPA and pork belly
Fonduta with truffles and Nebbiolo
Les-Baux-de-Provence and civet de sanglier (wild boar stew)
Chocolate and Cognac
Chablis and Jambon à la Chablisienne
Roast suckling pig and amber ale
Pecan pie and Kingston Black apple aperitif
Fish pie and chardonnay
Braised pheasant with chestnuts and Vacqueyras
Turron and sweet sherry
Galette des Rois and Muscat de St-Jean-de-Minervois
San Pellegrino and seafood
Duck confit and Madiran
A Viognier-dominated Languedoc white and a Chinese/Thai takeaway
Kedgeree and Western Australia Semillon
Apricot pancakes and apricot (or peach) beer
Seared diver-caught scallops and mature white burgundy
Wines - and other drinks - to match Delia’s new ‘cheat’ recipes
Espresso and Hazelnut Cake and Fairtrade Coffee
Salmon with leeks and Chardonnay
Boiled bacon and cabbage with Irish stout
Simnel cake and Orange Pekoe tea
Lamb tagine with dates, prunes and apricots and a very good Beaujolais
Pasta with Stilton and onion sauce and a new wave Spanish red
Chicken with sweet peppers and Tempranillo
Seabass carpaccio and Grûner Veltliner
Fritto misto + vino bianco
Tiramisu and oxidised sweet wines
Chicken salad and real apple juice
Mushroom ‘caviar’ and California sparkling wine
Top Picks
10 different drinks to pair with smoked salmon
The 10 best wines for spring and early summer drinking
Top wines to drink with turkey
Best beers for Christmas
Which foods work best with tawny port?
Best matches with oysters
What to match with meaty stews and casseroles
Matching wine and soup
Wine (and other drinks) to match Valentine’s Day favourites
Which wines and beers match best with Chinese food
The best food to match with chardonnay
Which drinks pair best with Thai food?
What to drink with asparagus part 2
Why Pinot Gris hits the mark with spicy food
My top pairings with strawberries
Which wines and beers pair best with mushrooms?
Top wine and beer matches for game
Matching food and Chablis II
What to drink with goose
Which foods pair best with whisky?
What type of wine pairs best with Vietnamese food?
What to pair with artisanal cheddar?
Which foods match best with Merlot?
Top wine pairings for lamb
My top 10 white wines from Tesco
And my top Tesco red wines
Matching wine and artichokes
Tips, Trends and Techniques
A vodka and caviar tasting flight
Shaken not stirred
Braucol, Gringet, Mondeuse and Frappato . . .
The tough task of pairing white truffles
The best food and wine matching on the planet
How to match . . . wine and cheese
What refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach?
Top trends for 2007
Food and fruit juice matching
Beer and food matching with Raymond Blanc
How to read a menu and come up with a great match
Building bridges
What to eat with old Côte Rotie
How to make the perfect Caipirinha
Even MPs indulge in a spot of food and wine matching!
The Amazing Black Olive Trick
Two more tips for successful food and wine matching
Dom Pérignon 1999
The lemon dilemma
Life after Lager
How the world’s best sakes pair with food
More pairings with Indian food
Why young wines work best for summer
What to drink with asparagus part I
Matching everyday wines with special occasion food
Matching food and wine at Le Gavroche
Sweet Bordeaux and savoury food
Matching Alsace wines and food
Krug, Lafon, Marcassin, Mouton-Rothschild . . .
How to eat - and drink - like a Tuscan
What to pair with new-wave Portuguese wines
Culinary fireworks - but no fall-outs - at Trotter’s 20th anniversary dinner
Matching food and Chablis I
How to host a Bordeaux dinner
Where to find the best hot chocolate in London
How to create the perfect Christmas cheeseboard
What to buy the winelover who has everything
Top food and wine trends for 2008
My must-have ingredient for 2008
Biodynamic food and wine matching
Voilà le Hot Duck!
The tricky task of pairing wine and citrus
A perfect wine for cheese. A perfect cheese for wine
Sweet or savoury - what is the perfect match for Sauternes?
A stunningly simple Valentine’s dessert
In 2008 the hot money seems to be on wine bars
When to match red wine with fish
Dry or fruity? Which style of white wine pairs best with simply grilled fish?
Wine recommendations - and a bit of amateur psychology - for Mother’s Day
Cheese and wine revisited
For a perfect match a wine needs to provide an element that’s missing in a dish
Matching port and chocolate
What food to pair with a 15% ABV wine
Paris tips and trends
Pairing well matured cheese with great Pinot Noir
Published Articles
Dinner in the Dog
Where to find one of the best Aussie wine lists outside London . . .
The Robert Parker of Beer
The fantastic world of Heston Blumenthal
Dans Le Noir?
Kerrrasma!
So what DO you pair with a blockbuster cabernet?
Does Bordeaux need butter?
The perennial problem of wine and cheese
Wine and spice
The day I cooked with Léoville las Cases
Fine Wine and Fast Food
Chocolate and Fine Wine Matching
The 10 trickiest foods to match with wine
Which wines to pick with vegetarian food?
How to make a perfect G & T
What type of wine works best with a barbecue?
What are the best wine matches for shellfish?
Which wines pair best with steak
How to pair wine with an authentic Indian meal
Christmas pairings with port, sherry and madeira
How long to keep wine
The best wine matches for luxury foods
My 25 top food and wine pairings
So, what makes a great cheddar?
Are the world’s top restaurants letting down winelovers?
A beginner's guide to juicing
How to buy great chocolate
Why I changed my mind about eating foie gras
Links
Recipes
Wilhelm Coetzee's Butterflied Leg of Lamb
Porc a la moutarde
Slow baked plums with shiraz and star anise
Brasato al Barolo (braised beef in Barolo)
Mulled wine - and cider - for Christmas
Frozen orange soufflé with orange liqueur
Spiced Venison with Wild Mushroom and Truffle Sauce
Rigatoni with aubergine (eggplant), sausage and Zinfandel sauce
French Onion Soup
Rustle up a Red Nose Pudding!
Menestra
Quick tiger prawns (shrimp) with pinot grigio, fresh tomato and basil sauce
Terrine Beaujolais
Peter Gordon’s nam phrik num dressing
Panko Chicken with Oroshi Ponzu
Summer berries and pink Champagne sabayon
Beer-can Chicken
Oktoberfest potato salad
Mulled cider with sweet roasted apples
Two last minute Thanksgiving cocktails
Dark, sticky Christmas cake with prunes and Guinness
How to make an Egg Nog
A super-smooth cheese fondue
Apricot brandy pancakes
Irish cocoa
Sausages with rich Guinness gravy
News and Views
Where to drink fine wine by the carafe
I'll have a wee dram if you don't mind
Soup and bread matching
Food matching for minors
Big boost for Picpoul
Matching red wine and chocolate
Pigs and Pinot
What goes on in the Members' Room?
Three new year’s resolutions
A return visit to cheese heaven
Food and wine matching courses
When in Champagne drink . . . Bordeaux
Which wine matches best with Indian food? - your verdict
Hit and miss at Robuchon
From vodka to mead
Your views live on Radio 5 Drive!
The world’s most extravagant food and wine matching dinner
Here’s to Clean Monday!
Beaujolais just doesn't spell romance
Pinot Noir and Asian food
How you can help raise money for Wine Relief
Can any wine survive a Vindaloo?
A beginner's guide to sake
Bordeaux tops the roast beef poll - just!
A zany day in Alsace
Friday bits and bobs . . .
Only a few more days to catch the launch offer
Hmmm, you’re not too sure about dessert wines according to our latest poll . . .
Japanese whisky and food
Pinot rules!
A great menu for a beer dinner
Red is the new white . . .
Great food - shame about the beer!
Which wines pair best with white-rinded cheeses like Brie and Camembert?
Heston Blumenthal's favourite sherry matches
If you do one thing this week, try a craft beer!
Matching Korean food with wine
Your favourite drink with pizza
The beginning of a great adventure
What to drink with tapas
A classic English meal with a perfectly matched French wine
Half an hour's fun at The Sampler
Shiraz is the best match for ribs, you say
Soft drinks for sophisticates
When beer would have been better than wine
More views on cooking with wine
Food and wine matching at the Tate
Do you know any students?
What to do with the drinks you bring back from holiday
Nigella makes riesling fly off the shelves!
Now you can bookmark!
What wine to drink with ratatouille?
Jean-Luc Rabanel is Gault Millau’s surprise choice for Chef of the Year
Red wine and red meat - what could possibly go wrong?
Will and I win an award for our beer and food book Appetite for Ale!
Help the homeless this Christmas by buying an inspirational recipe book!
Solve that last-minute present problem . . .
At last a low alcohol wine that tastes like wine!
Where - and how - to go wassailing
Now it’s olive oil and food pairing
Do we actually need Michelin any more?
A fabulous charity dinner
A gourmet b & b in the Abruzzo
A beginners’ guide to tea
Why I no longer eat foie gras
How to make a great cup of tea
Oysters and red wine
Hélène Darroze to take over at the Connaught
On the road again!
Pairing asparagus and beer
Should restaurants offer a ‘soft drinks list’ along with their wine list?
What to drink with squirrel
Great Places to Go
Top places in and around London
London’s latest openings
San Francisco and Northern California
A great find in Burgundy
A meal that shoots into my 10 best ever restaurant experiences
Is this the best value restaurant in Champagne?
Enfin! French wine tourism moves into the 21st century
L’Oustau vs L’Atelier
Fine dining in Colmar
Cognac right through the meal?
Where to eat in Cape Town and the Winelands
The best 'French' restaurant in Britain
Is Alinea the best restaurant in America?
My first meal at Marc Veyrat - but will it be my last?
Peak pairings in Hong Kong
My first encounter with Alain Ducasse
Some great Gascon discoveries
Wine flights at Fortnum's
More food and wine matching at Senderens and a gem of a restaurant on the Left Bank
Le Bistro d’Alex - a real find in an unlikely location
Food and wine pairing in Trentino
A great base to explore Beaujolais
Top tea spots in London
Four great restaurant finds in Paris
Venice restaurants - the big hitters
Venice restaurants: Eating off the beaten track
Ask Fiona
What to drink at a wedding . . .
Wine and smoke
Could you help match a three course dinner?
A challenging game menu
Difficult foods to match with wine
Guinea fowl and gewurz?
Wine - and food - for a big birthday bash
A match for pan-fried steak in a creamy mustard sauce
Schnitzel with noodles
Two questions about wine and weddings
Which are the best books on food and wine pairing?
What to drink with cake
Matching wine and saffron
What’s the best wine to drink with Christmas pudding?
Which wine to drink with haggis?
How to match beer and food
Which wine to drink with paella?
This Month's Menu
A winelover’s New Year’s Eve dinner
A Hallowe'en feast
A steak and Malbec supper
A cassoulet lunch
A Valentine's dinner for lazy lovers
A St Patrick’s Day supper
A spring lunch for 4
A simple spring supper for 4
A Bastille Day Lunch
A modern Greek menu
A vegetarian harvest supper
A Hallowe'en supper for 4-6
A Champagne (or sparkling wine) tasting and Russian-style smoked salmon and 'caviar' feast
How about having a New Year’s Eve beer dinner for a change?
An alternative Burns Night supper for six
Celebrate the Chinese New Year with this delicious seafood supper
An easy Easter brunch for six
My Books
About Me
Entertaining with Wine
Food and wine matching . . . a beginner’s guide
Three easy Christmas cocktails
Choosing wine for a party
What wine to order in a restaurant?
What temperature to serve wine
Which wine glasses to buy
Planning a Burns Night dinner
How to tell if a wine is corked
So what if your Valentine doesn’t drink wine?
Which wine to serve as an aperitif?
What to pour for your mum this Sunday
Which wines to drink at Easter
Which beers to drink at Easter
Why old is gold for autumn entertaining
Bring a bottle - but which one?
Which wine to take on a picnic?
How to organise a beer and cheese tasting
When should you chill red wine?
Cocktails for beginners
Celebrate your own Oktoberfest!
What to drink at Hallowe’en
Which wine to choose for Thanksgiving
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé but what to eat with it?
Treat your friends to a magnum this New Year’s Eve
Which type of Valentine are you?
Positively the last word (for this year) on Valentine’s Day
Which wine should precede a Leap Year proposal?
How to entertain like an Italian
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