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Pairing wine with Chinese cuisine

Pairing wine with Chinese cuisine

Posted on February 1 2022 at 07:42

I’ve written before about pairing wine with Chinese food - and so have some of my contributors but here’s a slightly different way of going about it that may help you decide which bottle to choose and make your pairings more successful. It involves deciding which flavours are predominant in a dish or selection of dishes.

Tags: food:world food red burgundy white burgundy burgundy black bean sauce Champagne food:veg & salads drink:champagne & sparkling Tokaji drink:sweet & fortified wine Merlot blends Merlot Pinot Noir drink:red wine Chardonnay Semillon Sem-Chard Semillon-Chardonnay Pinot Gris Gewürztraminer Viognier Riesling Chablis drink:white wine Sauvignon Blanc pancakes duck hotpots food:chicken & poultry barbecued spare ribs food:pork food:beef & lamb Szechuan sweet and sour spicy noodles noodles dim sum food:pasta, rice & noodles food:fish & shellfish food:soups & starters Chinese food Chinese food Chinese cuisine dim sum sweet and sour crispy duck with pancakes black bean sauce Szechuan cuisine Sichuanese cuisine
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Which wines and beers match best with Chinese food

Which wines and beers match best with Chinese food

Posted on February 15 2007 at 09:47

With Chinese new year coming up this weekend you may be planning a trip to a Chinese restaurant or planning a Chinese meal at home. But which wine to serve?

Tags: Chinese New Year China Chinese Jing Tea Dragonwell Great Red Cloak Puerh green tea Jasmine Silver Needle oolong jasmine tea Chinese tea tea Belgian triple beer drink:tea & coffee brown ale triple beer Leffe brune brune white beer weissbier witbier drink:beer & cider burgundy red burgundy Rhône Grenache Mourvèdre claret Bordeaux Shiraz Merlot blends Merlot Pinot Noir Tarrango Gamay Beaujolais drink:red wine white Zinfandel off-dry rosé off-dry Château de Sours Merlot Bordeaux clairet drink:rosé Veuve Clicquot Roederer ‘rich’ Champagne Champagne drink:champagne & sparkling New Zealand Oregon Gewürztraminer Torrontes Grüner Veltliner Pinot Gris kabinett Alsace Austria Loire Germany Riesling dry Riesling Sauvignon Blanc drink:white wine hoisin sauce spring rolls dumplings prawn dumplings Szechuan beef Szechuan black bean sauce glazed ribs sticky sauce duck Peking duck sweet and sour Cantonese sweet-sour food:veg & salads stir fried vegetables stir fry dim sum food:pork food:beef & lamb food:chicken & poultry food:pasta, rice & noodles food:fish & shellfish Chinese cuisine food:world food Chinese new year Chinese food
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Wines to match three very nice simple recipes from cookery writer Ken Hom

Posted on June 29 2008 at 20:43

I was interested to read in the Telegraph this weekend that Ken Hom is planning to move from his French base in Cahors to spend more time in Italy and Thailand.

Tags: cava drink:champagne & sparkling Pomerol St-Emilion claret Merlot Merlot blends drink:red wine Bordeaux steak grilled steak food:beef & lamb Puligny-Montrachet white burgundy burgundy Chablis Riesling Loire Reuilly Sauvignon Blanc drink:white wine vinaigrette teriyaki girolles asparagus steamed fish Cantonese cuisine food:veg & salads food:fish & shellfish Chinese cuisine food:world food Champagne Ken Hom
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When your BF makes you an apple tart 😊 #appletart #appleFabulous day at a the first Cheese and Cider summit @littlepomona bringing together cheesemakers and cider producers. There’s a natural synergy between the two which i don’t think we make enough of. Here are two of my favourite cheeses, @applebyscheese Cheshire and @sticheltondairy along with gorgeous ciders from @rosscider, @welshmountaincider and @olivers_cider and @cellarmansam’s brilliant Cheddar on my Mind which, as the name suggests, is made to go with cheddar. . . . #cheese #cheddar #cheesemaker #cheeselover #cider #hardcider #cheeseandciderRare chance to drink a 1990 @pauljabouletaine Hermitage La Chapelle (in magnum) with @thewinesociety1874 @noblerotsoho last night for which they apparently paid £25 back in the 90s. The current vintage is now about £175 assuming you can even get your hands on a bottle*. Still amazingly intense so thought it went better with the cheeseboard than with the main course of roast chicken with morels and vin jaune which was perfect with a @domainefornerot Saint-Aubin. * apparently wines like this can sell out in 2 MINUTES once a newsletter goes out. #redwine #northernrhone #hermitage #roastchicken #cheese #saintaubin #whiteburgundy #winedinner #finewine #foodandwine #winelover #guestThese were the wines I presented at Friday night’s ‘Battle of the Beverages’ at @afoodfestival thanks to the generosity of the sponsors who donated the bottles. The idea was that @petebrownbeer and @olivers_cider and I should each champion a drink with 3 different cheeses * I picked @whitecastle’s Siegerrebe, a deliciously crisp fruity Welsh white to go with Dorstone goat cheese * A gorgeously rich full-bodied Ribera del Duero from @pradoreybodegas from @ultracomida go with a mature Teifi (a gouda-style cheese from @cawscenarthcheese) * and a lush, lemony @chateauliot Sauternes via @bordeauxwinesuk to go with Perl Las, a creamy slightly salty blue also from Caws Cenarth. You can see the beers and ciders my opponents put forward in the subsequent shots. Who won? Tom came first with two wins out of 3, I came second though won the third round with the Sauternes and Pete, somewhat unfairly, came third although he fielded some great beers. Fact is cider is amazingly delicious with cheese as you’ll find if you sign up to my Substack and join my online ‘bring a bottle’ subscribers’ tasting this coming Thursday. (You can join for £4.50 a month though a year’s sub is cheaper pro rata 😉. And you get wine recs too!) . . . #cheese #wineandcheese #wine #winepairing #welshwine #siegerrebe #goatcheese #dorstone #riberadelduero #redwine #teifi #sauternes #sweetwine #bluecheese #perllas Follow on Instagram

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