Pairings

Best food pairings with sauvignon blanc

Posted on July 3 2024 at 08:11

Sauvignon blanc is many people’s favourite wine but what type of food pairs with it best?

Tags: noshow:highlight Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc oaked sauvignon blanc fumé blanc white Bordeaux Entre-Deux-Mers Graves Sauvignon-Semillon Chilean Sauvignon Blanc Pouilly Fumé Sancerre Thai food Greek food Mexican food food:world food dill pasta primavera spring vegetables pea soup peas Thai fish cakes coriander herbs green peppers pea shoots asparagus spring onions scallions avocado grilled lamb food:beef & lamb grilled chicken feta olives goat cheese salads tomato gazpacho goats cheese food:veg & salads sashimi trout squid fish and chips whitebait goujons fried fish mackerel sardines sea bass oysters crab food:fish & shellfish sauvignon blanc drink:white wine
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Whitebait and Muscadet-sur-Lie

Posted on July 29 2013 at 07:49

Regulars may have noticed a distinct French bias in my matches of the week and have wondered why this is. The truth is that my husband is an unreconstructed Francophile so French wine is mainly what we drink at home and what we order if we’re out together.

Tags: muscadet sur lie Muscadet drink:white wine whitebait food:fish & shellfish
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Spiced whitebait with sriracha and Chinon rosé

Posted on April 17 2017 at 13:51

As you’d expect many of the usual suspects featured in my pairings this weekend (chocolate, anyone*?) but the match I was most impressed by was nothing to do with Easter

Tags: drink:rosé lime sriracha spice oily fish whitebait food:fish & shellfish
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Fritto misto + vino bianco

Posted on April 21 2008 at 08:50

One of the real treats of our trip to Venice is fritto misto which used to refer to the assorted small fish that were too small to be sold from the fishermens’ catch but nowadays takes all manner of shapes and forms including vegetables and polenta (usually to keep the price down).