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 ...
You’ll have to forgive me the vagueness of this week’s match of the week, which is actually more of a hack, but I’ve largely been desk-bound so it’s been slim pickings.
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 ...
Fiona Beckett is an award-winning food and wine writer, one of the world’s leading experts on food and drink pairing, former wine columnist for The Guardian and the author of 25 books on food, wine, ...
So when we were at a seafood restaurant Entremar yesterday I ordered a glass of De J Rivera Mexican sauvignon blanc from Guadalupe. Wine isn’t cheap here - a glass is around the same price if not more ...
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 ...
The best wine to pair with macaroni cheese, or mac’n’cheese as our friends across the pond have it, depends how fancy - and how cheesy - your mac and cheese is. With a homely old-fashioned recipe you ...
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 type of sausage and the way they’re cooked but I personally find that beer ...