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Matching wine with Asian food, part 6 – smoky-nutty-earthy and strong-piquant
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 13 February 2026
• 1 min read
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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
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Matching wine with Asian food, part 5 – sweet/savoury and umami
Richard Hemming MW
Thursday 22 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Most Thanksgiving wine-pairing guides miss the point – it’s about people not perfection. This approach may be tongue-in-cheek and off-piste...
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‘But black kale, or cavolo nero, is a different beast. The leaves look like the frosted plumes of an exotic...
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Back in 2018, when Jancis suggested in Beaujolais – a useful alternative to burgundy that beaujolais was ‘a great choice...
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Tam looks at four newish books on the subject of food and wine, the first a little different from the...
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Arnica Rowan wrote this tale of rural life just after pouring this magnum on Canadian Thanksgiving Day last month and...
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Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey…
So goes the first line of the well-covered 1961 song by the...
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A gin that challenges the clichéd pairings.
It’s such an entwined pair that it’s one of the few drinks that...
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Tam discovers exactly what does and doesn't go with beaujolais in a sequel to her other recent food-and-wine pairing articles...
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The third of Tam's current series on food and wine pairings is especially for those suffering through yet another 2021...
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Can it be done? Bond says it can. The second of Tam's current series on food and wine matching. See...
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