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The best wine pairings with meatballs

The best wine pairings with meatballs

Posted on January 20 2022 at 06:40

Meatballs are essentially comfort food so you don’t want to drink anything too fancy with them but you do need something equally delicious - usually red in my book

Tags: spaghetti drink:rosé Lebanese red Languedoc red Greek red pinot noir Bergerac red Bordeaux zinfandel nero d'avola primitivo rosso conero rosso di montepulciano chianti Sicilian red Italian red drink:red wine Norwegian meatballs Swedish meatballs middle-eastern meatballs baked meatballs with cheese spaghetti and meatballs meatballs food:beef & lamb
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Spaghetti and meatballs and Nerello Mascalese

Spaghetti and meatballs and Nerello Mascalese

Posted on February 6 2017 at 12:25

Spaghetti and meatballs is a really rich pasta dish you need to wash down with a refreshing red - preferably Italian.

Tags: Nerello mascalese Sicilian red wine Italian red wine drink:red wine meatballs food:beef & lamb spaghetti and meatballs spaghetti food:pasta, rice & noodles pasta
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Glazed bacon ribs and Meursault

Glazed bacon ribs and Meursault

Posted on October 12 2015 at 16:31

What do you pair with a classic Irish dish of bacon and cabbage? Guinness might the traditional answer but when the bacon is celebrated northern Ireland butcher Peter Hannan’s amazing French trimmed dry cured bacon rack, glazed and cooked on the barbecue and served with an outrageously creamy parsley sauce then something a little more extravagant is called for.

Tags: nerello mascalese nero d'avola Sicilian red wine drink:red wine Meursault white burgundy drink:white wine cabbage parsley sauce bacon and cabbage ham bacon ribs bacon food:pork
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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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