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Best food pairings with sauvignon blanc

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on July 3 2024 at 08:11

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

As with other grape varieties its style varies markedly from one part of the world to the other - from the crisp minerally whites of the Loire to the exuberant gooseberry and passionfruit flavours of sauvignons from New Zealand's Marlborough region.

Although many are interchangeable so far as food pairings are concerned others suit specific types of dishes and ingredients

Sauvignon blanc food pairing guide

Minerally sauvignon blancs

For instance: Sancerre, Pouilly Fumé and sauvignon blanc from Tasmania

This is the style I’d pair with simple, barely seasoned ingredients such as raw and lightly cooked shellfish like oysters and shell-on prawns, fresh crab and simply grilled fish such as sea bass.

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Comments: 3 (Add)

E. Teresa Touey on March 30 2021 at 12:17

Any advice on California white wines with these food choices would be welcomed!

David Mackie on July 25 2019 at 17:13

I think Marlborough is in New Zealand and so would apply to the Aromatic/grassy/’herbaceous’ sauvignon blancs and sauvignon blends section.

Bridget on August 29 2014 at 18:52

Interesting in the article above, that you are not specific about Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs although that is what the article is entitled?? I would love some pairings for the tropical fruit style of Marlborough SB.
Thanks!

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