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Champagne Food Pairings: Champagne and Caviar

It is not every day that you have the opportunity to sample the likes of Cristal, Dom Pérignon and Krug side-by-side with Caviar (and at £180Read More

Andrew Barrow

3 Mar

Food and Wine

food and wine, sparkling

4 Comments

A Wine For Crispy Lemon Chicken

Alex over at Eating Leeds selected a rather tasty sounding New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc to accompany the food for this round of Combinations. It is roundRead More

Andrew Barrow

27 Feb

Food and Wine

food and wine, sparkling

1 Comment

Combinations 10: Pak Choi with Crispy Lemon Chicken

Something simple for this months little food and wine matching exercise – Pak Choi with Crispy Lemon Chicken. I am sure it is not difficult toRead More

Andrew Barrow

20 Feb

Food and Wine

food and wine, recipe

0 Comments

Five Rules For Matching Wine With Food

Reams and reams of writing have been produced on matching wine and food. Entire books in fact – some of them rather excellent* – have beenRead More

Andrew Barrow

12 Feb

Food and Wine

food and wine

4 Comments

A Wine For Paprika and Chorizo Baked Eggs

The Combinations challenge is a little exercise to match a wine with a specific dish. This month it is with a Baked Egg dish; eggs beingRead More

Andrew Barrow

22 Jan

Articles, Food and Wine

food and wine

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Combinations 9: Paprika and Chorizo Baked Eggs

For the next wine and food matching exercise an ingredient that is a little tricky to match successfully – eggs. The mouth-coating properties of egg yolksRead More

Andrew Barrow

16 Jan

Food and Wine

food and wine, recipe

1 Comment

Wine With Reindeer and Kangaroo

A request – suggestions for wines to accompany Kangaroo and Reindeer. My knowledge is sadly lacking in this important culinary sphere so I called on aRead More

Andrew Barrow

8 Jan

Food and Wine

food and wine, recipe

5 Comments

Combinations A Wine To Match A Lamb Stew

I have to agree with Alex on the recipe – what exactly is the point of adding Cranberry Sauce to the gravy? Served separately the flavourRead More

Andrew Barrow

29 Nov

Food and Wine

food and wine, Spanish Wine

0 Comments

Combinations 8 – Wine With Lamb Stew

With the wind howling through the trees outside my window, dumping great piles of soggy if gloriously coloured leaves on the doorstep, thoughts of deeply warmingRead More

Andrew Barrow

20 Nov

Food and Wine

food and wine, recipe

4 Comments

A Wine for Wagamama’s Chili Beef Ramen – Combinations #7

Coincidentally just a couple of days after selecting this dish as the basis for Combinations #7 the opportunity arose to eat at Wagamama; of course IRead More

Andrew Barrow

23 Oct

Food and Wine, Wine Notes

food and wine

6 Comments

Orange Wine in the Vineyard

I’ve abandoned the usual Sunday morning croissant and a listen to the Archers omnibus today. Instead I’m heading to that London and the RAW Fair (openRead More

13
May

Wine Tasting Slovenian Style

The wines of Miha Batic a natural wine producer in Slovenia; photos and tasting notes taken while sampling the wines in the vineyard.

12
May

Tuscan Vineyard

Two European trips in quick succession – Slovenia followed by Tuscany. Never been to either before. Both were rapidly-scheduled press trips but they did yield quiteRead More

8
May

Opening with the ‘basic’ wines he was almost apologetic at their simplicity. Personally I found them a delight; no idea of price at the time (the top of the range comes in at a very reasonable €20 cellar door) but to a bottle these ‘lesser’ wines were lovely, offering a balanced richness, a true regional acidic streak in the RI.VA.LE Chianti and a touch riper, softer palate to the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.

5
May

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Posts in 'Food and Wine' »

Champagne Food Pairings: Champagne and Caviar

A Wine For Crispy Lemon Chicken

Combinations 10: Pak Choi with Crispy Lemon Chicken

Five Rules For Matching Wine With Food

A Wine For Paprika and Chorizo Baked Eggs

Combinations 9: Paprika and Chorizo Baked Eggs

Wine With Reindeer and Kangaroo

Combinations A Wine To Match A Lamb Stew

Combinations 8 – Wine With Lamb Stew

A Wine for Wagamama’s Chili Beef Ramen – Combinations #7

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