food and wine matching
Latest food and wine matching
Inside information
Matching wine with Asian food, part 7 – vegetal
Part seven of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here for all the articles in this series so far published...
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 19 March 2026
• 1 min read
Inside information
Matching wine with Asian food, part 6 – smoky-nutty-earthy and strong-piquant
Part six of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here for all the articles in this series so far published...
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 13 February 2026
• 1 min read
Inside information
Adventures in wine and cheese – the lands of ice and snø
For this month’s adventures Ben heads north to Denmark, Sweden and Norway. We’d arrived in a country whose Nordic angles had been softened by a blanket of pristine snow. Blue-white...
Ben Colvill
Thursday 29 January 2026
• 1 min read
More food and wine matching
Inside information
Part five of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here...
Inside information
Part four of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click here...
Inside information
It’s pie season! Some mouth-watering ideas for pies and what to drink with them in time for Thanksgiving and all...
Inside information
Part three of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. Click for...
Free for all
Kicking off a new monthly column, Ben introduces us to the dark arts of wine and cheese pairing. Above, Langres...
Inside information
Part two of an eight-part series on how to pair wine with Asian flavours, adapted from Richard’s book. For part...
Inside information
The first instalment of an eight-part series adapting Richard’s book on how to pair wine with Asian flavours.
My attitude...
Tasting articles
Tam goes on a wine-and-food-pairing spree for English Wine Week. While reviewing dozens of English wines, now exported around the...
Free for all
What to drink with artichokes, asparagus, chilli and chocolate. A slightly shorter version of this is published by the Financial...
Book reviews
Natasha Hughes MW reviews Richard Hemming MW's candid guide to the complex maze of matching wine with a wide variety...
Free for all
Tam takes Wines of Ukraine's 'just one bottle' campaign and runs with it, creating six nights of incredible excuses to...
Free for all
6 February 2025 A surprising match made in heaven – republished, free for all, in our Throwback Thursday series. 8...
Inside information
Once upon a time, Sam, Tam and Tara thought it would be fun to put together a pie-pairing guide...
Don't quote me
The power of bitterness in the complex polyphony of Georgian cuisine.
‘putin Xuilo’* it said on the high, rusty metal...
Nick on restaurants
Sherry Week began last Monday. Nick had hoped to celebrate it at the launch of a new book about this...
Inside information
Lesson learnt when judging the UK finals of the Copa Jerez sherry-and-food-pairing competition: the kids are alright, and sherry is...
Choose your plan
Member
$135
/year
Ideal for wine enthusiasts
- Access 290,805 wine reviews & 15,958 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
Inner Circle
$249
/year
Ideal for collectors
- Access 290,805 wine reviews & 15,958 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
Professional
$299
/year
For individual wine professionals
- Access 290,805 wine reviews & 15,958 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
- Commercial use of up to 25 wine reviews & scores for marketing
Business
$399
/year
For companies in the wine trade
- Access 290,805 wine reviews & 15,958 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
- Commercial use of up to 250 wine reviews & scores for marketing