Pairings | Ginger liqueur

What to drink with cake (updated)

Posted on September 5 2007 at 09:42

A recent email from a reader asked me to suggest a wine to go with “a triple coconut cake with a tangy pineapple icing served with fresh fruit salsa that has kiwi, strawberry, mandarine oranges, blueberries and fresh pineapple in it”.

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Best pairings with sticky toffee pudding

Posted on January 13 2019 at 08:58

One of the all-time favourite British desserts sticky toffee pudding is super-sweet so will overwhelm most wines you might think of pairing with it so what should you choose?

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Six of the best drinks to carry in a hipflask

Posted on January 7 2021 at 13:02

Since we’re incarcerated for the forseeable future with only a daily walk as light relief it struck me we need to go back to the days when people carried a hipflask of something warm and sustaining, particularly given the current icy conditions.

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Pairings | Ginger liqueur

What to drink with cake (updated)

Best pairings with sticky toffee pudding

Six of the best drinks to carry in a hipflask

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