Wine and Glasses
Food and Wine Pairing Basics
Unlock the secrets of perfect wine and food pairings! Discover how to balance flavours, from robust reds with fatty meats to crisp whites with delicate fish. Learn about harmony vs. contrast, the impact of cooking methods, and regional pairings. Explore expert tips on matching wine with salt, acid, fat, and spice.
Explore more
- acidity
- aeration
- aerators
- Albariño
- asparagus
- BBQ
- Beaujolais
- beer history
- beverage history
- Bordeaux Blanc
- Britain
- bubbles
- Burgundy wine
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- care
- Cava
- caviar
- Cervantes
- Champagne
- charcoal vs gas
- Chardonnay
- cheese pairing
- Chianti
- Cinsault
- citrus flavours
- classic pairings
- cleaning
- Coca Cola
- cocktails
- corkscrews
- Cretan wine
- cricket
- Decanters
- Don Quixote
- duck pairing
- Emir
- entertaining
- environmental impact
- fine dining
- food matching
- food pairing
- fortified wine
- French
- French wine
- freshness
- game meats
- Gastronomy
- German
- German beer
- Glass design
- Greek wine
- green initiatives
- Grüner Veltliner
- Halloween
- Hemingway
- historical events
- Italian
- Jerez
- La Rioja Alta
- Lamb dishes
- Loire Valley
- Loire Valley wines
- Malmsey
- minerality
- mixology
- Moschofilero
- Moscow Mule
- mushroom dishes
- New Zealand
- New Zealand wine
- oak aging
- Oregon wine
- Organic Wine
- Phoenician
- phylloxera crisis
- picnics
- Pinot Grigio
- Pinot Noir
- Pinotage
- Port
- Port wine
- Priorat
- Prosecco
- red wine
- regional pairings
- Rías Baixas
- Ribera del Duero
- Rioja
- roast chicken
- rosé
- rosé wine
- Sack
- salmon pairing
- Sauvignon Blanc
- seasonal food
- serving
- Shakespeare
- Sherry
- South African cuisine
- South African wine
- Spanish
- Spanish Cuisine
- Spanish Food
- Spanish Wine
- sparkling wine
- spirits
- St George's Day
- Stellenbosch
- summer wines
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Wine
- temperature
- Tempranillo
- Valpolicella
- Vega Sicilia
- Viognier
- viticulture
- vodka
- vodka cocktails
- White wine
- Wine / Food pairing
- Wine /Food pairing
- wine appreciation
- wine characteristics
- wine collecting
- wine etiquette
- Wine Export
- Wine History
- wine list
- wine ordering
- wine pairing
- wine production
- wine pronunciation
- wine regions
- wine serving
- wine tasting
- wine terminology
- Wine tools
- Wine Tourism
- Wine trivia
- wine varieties
- winemaking
- Zinfandel

FAQs
We've answered some of your most common questions covering everything from cleaning advice to order tracking
Explore our FAQs