Tag: food and wine matching

Pairing wine with chicken

In our new series food writer Susie Carter takes a look at how to successfully pair wines with key ingredients. This month it’s the turn of the UK’s most-consumed meat: chicken. The first time I really became aware of the nuances of food and wine matching was at a friend’s Chardonnay tasting. We compared six […]

How to match Champagne with food – Lunch & Learn 4

You might be reading this while tucking into an al-desko sandwich, but don’t let that stop you contemplating more luxurious fare. For day four of our Lunch & Learn series, Wine School’s Barbara Drew explores the potential of Champagne as a superb food wine. When most people hear the word Champagne they think of canapés […]

The rules of food and wine matching (part one)

In our new series, food writer Susie Carter takes a look at which wines pair most successfully with some of our favourite foods. She begins by taking us through the key principles of food and wine pairing. When I first started studying food and wine pairing I thought it was going to be easy. As […]

Fowl and fine wine

If one were to stereotype the lifestyle of a Berry Bros. & Rudd staffer, images of game lunches matched with a large glass of Château Something-or-other would almost certainly spring to mind. Doing little to disabuse you of this notion (although the reality is, we assure you, far less indulgent) we recently came across a delicious […]