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Spanish ham and orange wine

Spanish ham and orange wine

Posted on August 1 2022 at 12:37

There were other dishes on the table* - but it was the jamon de Teruel, a lesser known ham from Aragon in Spain, that was the standout pairing with the orange wine I was drinking last week.

Tags: jamon ham food:pork skin contact wine drink:orange wine
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Gorgonzola dolce and La Stoppa Ageno 2005

Gorgonzola dolce and La Stoppa Ageno 2005

Posted on March 23 2015 at 16:57

I’m a bit obsessed with orange wine* at the moment. It seems to go with so many things not least blue cheese as this match with gorgonzola at Le Baratin in Paris underlined.

Tags: Gorgonzola food:cheese Malvasia Italian wine skin contact wine drink:white wine orange wine
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Camembert-style cheese and amphora-aged Bacchus

Camembert-style cheese and amphora-aged Bacchus

Posted on June 27 2022 at 09:10

I’ve long felt that white wine is as good, if not a better match for cheese than red but it takes chutzpah to serve it at the end of a wine dinner as Mark Hix and Rob Corbett of Castlewood Vineyard did at an event I took part in last week at The Fox Inn at Corscombe

Tags: natural wine skin contact wine Bacchus drink:orange wine English cheese brie camembert food:cheese
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