Italian wines of different styles pair well with greens and pork pasta
If you had a hunch that Italian wine was a safe bet with pasta, you were right. Here is a white from Sardinia, as well as reds from Campania and...
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Wine with soup sounds tricky, but just follow the pairing rules
Soup and wine can make for a tough pairing, but if you approach it like any other pairing, you’ll be fine. These three wines — an Austrian riesling, a California...
Light, fresh wines to match braised trout recipe
This dish is light and clean, and calls out for wines that are the same. Three selections — a Champagne, a sauvignon blanc from New Zealand and a gruner veltliner...
How do you shop for budget wines? We taste test 12
In my search for a few bottles that cost less than a glass of wine in a lot of restaurants, I finally got my hands on all five wines in...
Affordability of Chilean white wine means learning about it won’t cost you a lot
Chilean sauvignon blanc has a lot to offer, and it usually doesn’t ask for much in return. It’s a big country down there, or at least a long one, and...
Go simple and fresh or rich and complex for wine with scallops recipe
For a rustic dish such as this scallops recipe, with its layers of complexity, a wine has to offer either a similar amount of complexity or a dazzling amount of...
Don’t fret about Thanksgiving wine choices — just about anything goes
On Thanksgiving day, two things are more important than the wine you pour. No. 1, of course, is the people you are with. (If you thought “watching football” was No....
Target’s new wines signal a casual wine-drinking seachange
When I saw wine in convenience stores years ago, I thought it was a sign of something: that wine consumption in the United States was finally, or very nearly, a...
How to pair wine: Bold flavors match beans, rice and andouille dinner
Richness and smoke sum up this dish, so any wine paired with it has to have something to say about those things. A white from France and two reds, from...
Dynamic wines for a dynamic chicken salad lunch
Curry is complex, and any wine meant to stand up to it has to be dynamic in its own right — especially in an instance like this, where spice and...