Wine and chocolate is a combination that springs readily to mind when thinking about romantic Valentine’s Day meals or a Valentine’s Day gift. It can be tricky to make this combination work however. Chocolate has intense flavours with the sweetness and sometimes bitter sweetness if you choose dark chocolate. It’s a complex tasting experience and [...]
Turkey is a pretty easy food to match with wine so the good news is that you can pick your favourite variety if you’re serving turkey for Christmas lunch and it will be fine. However, Pinot Noir is the classic wine match with turkey and Christmas dinner in general. It’s bigger in flavour than white [...]
It’s not as difficult to match wines with spicy food as you might think. There are wines that go perfectly ok with spicy food. The key is to avoid wines that are very tannic such as cabernet blends as the spices in the food will make the tannins more pronounced and cause a bitter taste. [...]
A big part of Christmas, and every celebration for that matter, is the food and drink. We’ve gradually developed our own Christmas food and wine traditions in Australia which are more in keeping with what we can expect in the middle of summer. In other words doing things which make sense when the weather’s hot [...]
If you have no idea what wine goes with what food or know some basic rules but would like to increase your knowledge then you’re probably going to be interested in a new Australian book on matching food and wine. The book is called Ryn and Cordie’s wine rules after the two authors and contains [...]
As the weather gets a bit colder, it’s a great time to relax with some warm, spicy mulled wine. You can experiment with different recipes and adjust the quantities of wine, water and sugar depending on whether you want a stronger or sweeter drink. This is how I make it. 1 bottle of medium to [...]
Christmas is coming and buying wine online is an easy way to stock up in advance in preparation for Christmas parties and get togethers with friends and family. We have all the wine selections you’ll need for Christmas plus some great ideas for Christmas gifts. Here are our suggestions for selecting the perfect wines to [...]
Tannins are the astringent and bitter compounds found in grape skins, stems and seeds. In red wine, the astringency causes the dryness in the mouth, or the mouth puckering sensation, when drinking the wine. Astringency is more about feel or texture than it is about taste. The term “mouthfeel” is often used to describe the [...]
Wine and cheese has to be the most obvious food and wine pairing. It’s partly because of the number of possibilities. There are so many different varieties of cheese as there is with wine. Also both are natural products and the product of fermentation. There are some general guidelines when pairing wine with cheese: Hard [...]
It’s Friday! And it’s home made pizza for dinner which makes it even better. The question of what wine goes with pizza is quite a common one. I’ve come across it a few times online so here’s a summary of points to consider. With all questions on wine and food pairings though it’s important to [...]
