Pairings

Best food pairings with sauvignon blanc

Posted on May 6 2022 at 15:11

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

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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.