Pairings | Sausages

What to drink with your favourite Christmas snacks (updated)

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on December 13 2024 at 09:00

You may think it’s utterly pointless to waste time wondering what would be the best match for Christmas snacks. For most people the answer would be prosecco.

But suppose you were going to sit down and enjoy a packet of your favourite snack with a bevvy of your choice what would it be?

In general it’s more useful to focus on the snack flavouring than the snack shape.

Salty snacks pretty well all go with a refreshing lager, cheesy ones, you may be surprised to hear, with a chardonnay, meaty snacks - I’m personally channelling homemade sausage rolls rather than roast beef Monster Munch or Bacon Frazzles - with a hearty red and fishy snacks - who grazes on fishy snacks other than maybe smoked salmon canapés? - with a crisp white such as sauvignon blanc.

Crisps

Remarkably good with champagne (fried egg-flavoured crisps even more so). As indeed are chips

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