Which wine goes best with what food?
Ever struggled to work out what wine you should be serving with your dinner? Laithwaites have an amazing site which can show you how to pick which wine to go with the style of food you're cooking for your evening meal. This is an excellent guide if you're planning a dinner party.
Laithwaites
Guide to picking the right wine to go with food
Pick Food Match on the side menu - They've got a huge list of food to go through and when you click on each cateogry you'll get a suggested list of wines. They pick a range of wines they think will go well with the food. For some foods there are lots of wines suggested and for some categories there are far fewer.
For each wine they give lots of useful information:
Type of wine -
Country the wine is from
Region
Grape Variety
Style - brief description of wine
Alcohol %
Drink Before End of date
Ideal Food to serve the wine with
Bottle Size
They give a good description of the wine as well as information about any awards its won - plus pricing information. They also list other wines which you might enjoy if you like this wine. This is a good way of extending the number of wines you like. You can browse the list of wines picked for each food choice by most popular, name, price or by awards. This means you can sort through the wines in different ways and helps you pick the right wine.
This food match resource is very useful if you're doing a dinner party and planning to server several wines and you'll be able to find some really interesting wines which will suit the menu well. You'll also learn useful snippets about the wines you'll be serving to impress your guests with.
Don't forget they also sell beers too - so you can add in some interesting bottled beers to add interest to a menu.
The number in brackets indicates the number of wines suggested for each food category. You'll find some have loads of wines suggested.
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