food and wine matching

Latest food and wine matching

It’s pie season! Some mouth-watering ideas for pies and what to drink with them in time for Thanksgiving and all the festive occasions to follow. Tam writes We’re adding more...

Tamlyn Currin Saturday 22 November 2025 • 24 min read

A collection of aromatic spices on a marble table

Inside information Matching wine with Asian food, part 3 – aromatic flavours

Richard Hemming MW Thursday 13 November 2025 • 1 min read

Free for all Adventures in wine and cheese – Langres and fizz

Kicking off a new monthly column, Ben introduces us to the dark arts of wine and cheese pairing. Above, Langres – a French cheese just made for fizz. I had...

Ben Colvill Tuesday 4 November 2025 • 1 min read

More food and wine matching

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Microbe matching

The companion piece to today's tasting article … Mid-afternoon cravings for sauerkraut are alarming enough but potentially disastrous when there...

KWV The Mentors with Paxton & Whitby cheese

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Wines for cheese, cheeses for wine

Tam investigates wine and cheese pairings, discovers a fantastic new cheese, and tells us what to lay in for Christmas...

Henriques e Henriques 10 YO Sercial madeira and cakes sweet stuff

Wines of the week

Henriques & Henriques, Sercial 10 Year Old Madeira

Madeira, the cure-all wine. From £18.99, €24.70, 733 Ukrainian hryvnia (50 cl), CA$49.08, AU$57.25, 948 Czech koruna, $42.99, 5,115 Japanese...

The Art & Science of Foodpairing by Coucquyt Lahousse Langenbick

Book reviews

Book reviews 2020 – taste

Two books on two ends of the spectrum – it's all about the flavour, or it's beyond flavour. Does it...

Nick on restaurants

Hold on for fish mince, butter tarts and more

What have some of the world's best chefs been doing during lockdown? A version of this article is published by...

John F Francis still life - wine and cheese

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Hospo food and wine matches – a guide

1 June 2020 We have just published details of the 61(!) runners up in our competition and, separately, details of...

Headshots of the winners of the JancisRobinson.com hospo pairings competition

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Hospo pairings – the winners

As promised, we now spell out who wins six beautiful wine glasses and a year's membership of our Purple Pages...

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Hospo pairings – very nearly the best

These 61 submissions in our food and wine matching competition were very nearly as good as the winners. See also...

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Hospo pairings – sweet things

See this guide to all the articles we have published on hospitality professionals' suggested food and wine matches, and make...

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Hospo pairings – off the beaten track

A round-up of the unusual in this latest instalment of wine and food matches proposed by our hospitality professionals. See...

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Hospo pairings – plant-based, heat and spice

A rich smorgasbord of food and wine pairings volunteered by the laid-off hospitality professionals we have welcomed to Purple Pages...

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Hospo pairings – around the world

A country-by-country survey of just some of the food and wine matches suggested by the professionals we have welcomed recently...

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Hospo pairings – sherry

There are more of these tummy-rumbling (or churning) pairings in the Hospo food and wine matches guide. We’re sherry zealots...

Fried chicken by Aleks Dorohovich - unsplash

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Hospo pairings – lockdown limitations

More suggestions from unemployed hospitality staff, putting in the time creating, or remembering, fine food and wine pairings specifically tailored...