Match of the week

Moroccan salads and vin gris

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on February 17 2025 at 20:10

Wine is by no means served in all restaurants in Morocco so the idea of going so far as pairing it with specific dishes is equally if not more unfamiliar.

But they have a style of rosé called vin gris or gris de gris which is a versatile partner for many Moroccan dishes especially salads. It’s more like a white wine than a rosé with just the palest pink tinge.

We had a Moroccan wine, the 2023 Eclipse Les Deux Domaines made from grenache with a selection of salads including eggplant (aubergine) lemon and coriander, purslane salad and Taktouka (cooked peppers and tomatoes) at an excellent Marrakesh restaurant called Shabi Shabi.

This isn’t that selection but the light was so low I didn’t get a decent photograph of it but here’s a similar offering from the restaurant at the Musée de l’Art Culinaire Marocain which, like many Moroccan restaurants, doesn’t serve alcohol.

It would also go well with a vegetable tagine or 7 vegetable couscous.

It doesn’t seem to be available in the UK but you can find similar wines from the Languedoc in the South of France.

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