Ah lasagne – that go to, feel good food. If ever there was a dinner that you could relax with over a glass of wine, it would be this. But what if you’re not particularly fond of Italian wine? What if you’d much prefer a robust Spanish red instead? Clearly Read more…
Cooking with wine is great. Sometimes you can even put it in the food! The internet is chock full of great wine and food recipes, and one of our favourites is this lemon butter wine sauce for monkfish recipe from Food.com. The recipe is simple and easy to recreate, with Read more…
To say that Italians are serious about their food would be something of an understatement. In Italy, food is an integral part of daily life. Italians are proud of their cuisine, and rightly so; It is some of the best in the world, and many Italian dishes have travelled to Read more…
Rueda wine comes from Spain’s Rueda DO, located between the prestigious regions of Toro and Ribera del Duero. Unlike its neighbours, however, Rueda is best known for producing white wine. White Rueda comes from Verdejo, Sauvignon Blanc, Viura, or a combination of all three. Stylistically, they can range from light Read more…
The fortified wines from the Jerez de la Frontera region of Spain, commonly known as Sherry, are often thought of as simply dessert wines. There is some truth to this, of course, but it runs the risk of oversimplifying and misunderstanding the whole Sherry category. It also risks missing out Read more…
Food and wine are two of life’s greatest pleasures, so why do they cause so many of us such headaches? Knowing how to pair food and wine properly can be a tricky subject to master, as there are simply so many options and variables. Luckily, it’s something that you can Read more…
Priorat wines are among Spain’s most distinctive: Rugged, robust and powerful. Hailing from steep, sunburnt terrain, the wines are definitely of their place. The reds are blends, with prominent grape varieties being Carignan and Grenache. A whole host of other grapes are permitted, including Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Pinot Read more…
It is very common to age wine in oak barrels. Barrel ageing is particularly used for the fine red wines of top regions like Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Bordeaux and Burgundy. Some white wines also undergo barrel ageing, with Chardonnay being the most prominent example. Ageing these wines in oak Read more…
We love pairing food and wine, and we love it even more when people don’t take the whole thing too seriously. By all means you should seek out great food and wine pairings, but for most of us it’s not going to be a matter of life and death. A Read more…
Merlot is one of the world’s most popular red wine grapes. Good (and often great) Merlot is made throughout the world, from France and Spain to the USA, Chile and beyond. At its best it makes fleshy, rounded and supple wines with generous mouth-filling flavours of berries, plum and currants. Read more…
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