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Top food pairings with Clare Valley and Eden Valley riesling

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on April 24 2014 at 09:42

One of the most distinctive styles of white wine, dry rieslings from the Clare and Eden Valley in south Australia have a distinctive limey twist that makes them a particularly good match for Asian and Asian-inspired food.

Spot ingredients such as ginger, kaffir lime, lemongrass, coriander and fresh chillies on a menu or in a recipe and Aussie riesling* is the obvious go to.

There are three main styles:

Inexpensive young rieslings

Here the flavour of lemon and apple is more obvious than the characteristic lime which makes them a great match for raw and lightly cooked shellfish like prawns, crab and seared squid or light noodle dishes with seafood

Also try: smoked salmon, fish and chips and light Mexican-style seafood dishes like tacos

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Comments: 3 (Add)

Pam on June 22 2013 at 13:14

My fave, although a bit unimaginative, Nigella Lawson's "Coq au Riesling" Cook with it, drink it!

Anilkumar on June 22 2013 at 12:51

Very appropriate pairings Fiona.I would just add that in my experience,low alcohol Rieslings work best with Thai food.

Judith Burns on June 22 2013 at 11:31

Perfect choices. At a recent blind tasting our Slavonian Grasevina (welschriesling) from JosiÄ‡ was initially thought to be an Eden Valley riesling. We match it with smoked trout and salmon (with a little horseradish), fish carpaccio and Thai food.

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