Category Archives: Food and wine matching

Wines of Chile and a Chilean pebre

A few months ago Stella and I did a tasting with Spanish wines; I’m sure you can imagine how much I hated that. It was a great success, particularly since food-matching with Spanish wines is such a joy. And so … Continue reading

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An Alsacian onion tart…and the wines to go with it

If Spain is my true love in terms of wine now, then Alsace is a very close second. I lived there when I was a student and, although it was probably the most surreal year of my life for lots … Continue reading

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WTF Do I Drink Tonight: Fizz and Fab Nuts

A couple of weeks ago Stella and I ran our second wine-tasting. This time we were trying lots of non-Champagne fizz from the sort of wine countries I usually hate, or can’t afford (New Zealand was in there twice, as … Continue reading

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Champagne, cheesy biscuits and celebrating

I am celebrating. The bathroom is done-ish, I have some more work when the landscape was looking distinctly bare and I have just made peace with my oldest friend in the world, probably one of the few people, bar my … Continue reading

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