Pairings

Best food pairings with sauvignon blanc

Posted on July 1 2018 at 05:54

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

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What to drink with peashoots?

Posted on May 16 2009 at 10:37

Peashoots exemplify the delicate flavours of spring as Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall persuasively argues in the Guardian today. How do you find a wine that won’t overwhelm them?

Wines to match summer vegetable-based recipes from Mark Hix

Posted on July 5 2008 at 10:09

Although you rarely match a wine to vegetables such as peas or beans they do have an influence on pairings. Peas have a natural sweetness, broad beans an earthiness and runner beans a herbaceous flavour that can affect the style of wine you choose. Here are my suggestions to go with the four recipes in Mark Hix’s column in the Independent today.

Wines for some tricky Chinese dishes

Posted on May 10 2008 at 08:41

When I read Mark Hix recipes in The Independent today they were so challenging that I nearly gave up but as everyone else seems to be writing about asparagus today and I’ve done a lot on asparagus recently there was no other option . . .

Lotus root stir-fry and chrysanthemum tea

Posted on June 20 2016 at 08:50

It seems invidious to pick out just one wine pairing from my visit to the Okanagan valley last week (of which more in due course) so I’m going for the first drink I had on my arrival: chrysanthemum tea at a brilliant Chinese restaurant called Chef Tony in Richmond, the town just next door to Vancouver.