Sometimes a wine pairing is not about a whole dish but a particular ingredient that makes a wine shine. In this case the ...

Amarone is a full-bodied Italian red that needs to be paired with rich slow cooked meat dishes or with mature parmesan or ...

Sometimes it’s the top note in a dish that makes the pairing work as with the tarragon in this chicken and tarragon pie which ...

This recipe was created by my friend cookery writer Claire Thomson of 5 o’clock apron to celebrate the release of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau about which we’ve just made a reel which you can find ...

One of the few food and drink combinations I don’t feel that happy about is wine and soup. Not all soups, obviously, but many of them. It has as much to do with the type of food soup is (wholesome and ...

Amarone or Amarone della Valpolicella is a full-bodied red wine from the Veneto region of Italy that gets its richness and slight sweetness from being partially fermented on the skins of dried grapes, ...

The question I get asked most often as a wine writer is how long you should keep a bottle of wine. It’s one of those ‘How long is a piece of string?’ questions: it depends both on the bottle and the ...

Pork belly has become a cheap and popular main course so what should you drink with it? It depends how you cook it. but it doesn’t have to be wine . . . If it’s roasted you can basically go with the ...

Actually there are a number of wines that pair well with chicken pie, also beginning with ch - chablis, chenin blanc and champagne to name three.