Sometimes a wine pairing is not about a whole dish but a particular ingredient that makes a wine shine. In this case the ...
Amarone is a full-bodied Italian red that needs to be paired with rich slow cooked meat dishes or with mature parmesan or ...
This recipe was created by my friend cookery writer Claire Thomson of 5 o’clock apron to celebrate the release of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau about which we’ve just made a reel which you can find ...
Sometimes it’s the top note in a dish that makes the pairing work as with the tarragon in this chicken and tarragon pie which ...
One of my favourite recipes from my recently reissued book The Wine Lover’s Kitchen which is full of recipes for cooking with wine. Red wine and cinnamon are natural partners and work together ...
Amarone or Amarone della Valpolicella is a full-bodied red wine from the Veneto region of Italy that gets its richness and slight sweetness from being partially fermented on the skins of dried grapes, ...
One of the few food and drink combinations I don’t feel that happy about is wine and soup. Not all soups, obviously, but many of them. It has as much to do with the type of food soup is (wholesome and ...
With southern hemisphere wines from the 2024 vintage already hitting the shelves the annual release of Beaujolais Nouveau has become less significant than it once used to be but it’s still a fun ...
What is the best wine pairing for venison? An easy answer is the same sort of wine you’d drink with beef, but I’d suggest a few modifications as the two are not quite the same. Three qualities of ...