Top pairings

Top wine (and other) pairings for sausages

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on November 4 2023 at 07:19

There are very few occasions on which sausages don't appeal but what’s the best pairing for them?

As always it depends on the sausage but I personally find that beer and cider are just as good matches as wine.

Sausage and mash
The quintessential British sausage dish is almost always better accompanied by Britain’s national drink, beer than wine, especially if served with onion gravy. (The same goes for toad in the hole.) I’d pick a hearty ale like Timothy Taylor Landlord but if the gravy is dark and intense as in this recipe for sausages with rich Guinness gravy you could even try a stout or a porter. If you don’t drink beer a hearty southern French or Spanish red or Argentine malbec would all work well.

Pork and leek sausages
Lighter sausages such as pork and leek or pork and apple pair well with cider. You could also drink white wine with them - I’d suggest a chenin blanc or unoaked or subtly oaked chardonnay.

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