Pairings | Shellfish

What wine (and other drinks) to pair with poke

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on April 4 2024 at 08:33

If you haven’t heard of poke - the Hawaiian dish of cubed raw fish usually with rice and/or vegetables - you soon will. It’s everywhere (and pronounced, by the way, pokay not poke).

But what do you drink with it? A light lager would be the traditional match but there’s no reason why you shouldn’t match it with a wine, a cocktail or a soft drink for that matter. Here are my top seven suggestions

Riesling

A crisp fresh young riesling - from the Okanagan Valley or Washington state, for example - would be delicious

Grüner Veltliner

If in doubt turn to Grüner. Especially with Asian flavours

Sake

Poke is actually not that different in flavour from sushi and although the Japanese wouldn’t traditionally drink a rice-based drink with rice there’s no reason why you shouldn’t.

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