Food & Wine Pairings

Best Wine for Ham

Ham, like wine, is a single-word descriptor for an entire genre of edible delights that come in all manner of colors, flavors and preparations. And ham, like wine, can serve as either a festive cen...

Best Wine for Charcuterie

A charcuterie board can be a fun and creative way to display a selection of sophisticated snacks, whether you’re hosting (or attending!) a summer gathering, or just feel like dressing up your food ...

Best Wine for Turkey

The big winter holidays are fast approaching, and it’s time to start thinking about what dishes you’re going to serve at your Thanksgiving soiree ́ -- or what wine you’re going to bring with you as...

Best Wine for Thanksgiving

Everyone has one staple Thanksgiving dish that is their die-hard, go-to, there-will-be-no-leftovers favorite. And whether yours is mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, or the ce...

Best Wine for Oysters

Oysters and wine: a pairing for the ages. We’re willing to go out on a limb and say that oysters and wine were the first intentional food pairing ever made (realistically it was actually probably b...

Best Wine for Salmon

Salmon are magical animals. Their lives are epic: they hatch from eggs laid in freshwater, swim hundreds of miles to the ocean to mature and grow, then swim back to the same stream in which they we...

Best Wine for Pizza

They go together like peanut butter and jelly; like ice cream and birthday cake; like...well...pizza and wine!  These two iconic Italian staples were quite literally made for each other (or at lea...

Best Wine for Chinese Food

“What grows together, goes together.” That is to say, plants and animals that exist in a similar bioregion can often combine to make delicious and uncannily cohesive dishes. This catchy statement h...

Best Wine for Seafood

How often do you daydream about seafood and wine enjoyed on a red brick patio on some blue-sea’s coast on a summer evening? Do you think about the white table cloth, the warm breeze carrying the ar...

Best Wine for Indian Food

Consuming a really well-made curry can be an equivalent experience to drinking a deep and complex wine. If you’ve ever attempted to make an Indian recipe, you know how long the lists of herbs and s...