Pairings

Best food pairings with sauvignon blanc

Posted on July 3 2024 at 08:11

Sauvignon blanc is many people’s favourite wine but what type of food pairs with it best?

Tags: noshow:highlight Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc oaked sauvignon blanc fumé blanc white Bordeaux Entre-Deux-Mers Graves Sauvignon-Semillon Chilean Sauvignon Blanc Pouilly Fumé Sancerre Thai food Greek food Mexican food food:world food dill pasta primavera spring vegetables pea soup peas Thai fish cakes coriander herbs green peppers pea shoots asparagus spring onions scallions avocado grilled lamb food:beef & lamb grilled chicken feta olives goat cheese salads tomato gazpacho goats cheese food:veg & salads sashimi trout squid fish and chips whitebait goujons fried fish mackerel sardines sea bass oysters crab food:fish & shellfish sauvignon blanc drink:white wine
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Clos Floridène Blanc Graves 2012

Posted on December 7 2013 at 07:48

Dry, oaked white Bordeaux is one of the most underrated styles of wine in my view. I can’t understand why it’s not more popular (probably because the Bordelais keep most of it for themselves).

Tags: Graves oaked white Bordeaux white Bordeaux drink:white wine
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A winelover's New Year's Eve dinner

Posted on December 28 2010 at 07:59

After the tradition-bound cooking of the Christmas period (from which the family will never let you deviate . . .) it’s good to branch out a bit with your New Year’s Eve meal and also pick some dishes that will allow you to drink some serious wines. Note you need to start the beef two days in advance.

Semillon and seafood

Posted on March 9 2010 at 05:38

This week I’m on a wine trip in South Africa (so posting may be slightly more spasmodic). There have been many great matches already but two interesting ones have involved Semillon a grape the country is beginning to handle very impressively.