| food |
hints & tips |
wines |
| Almond (sweet dishes) |
(see also Baklava, Bakewell tart, Bakewell pudding, Marzipan) Sweet Muscat often matches sweet almond dishes. Check the sweetness of your dish and look for a wine that is as sweet or sweeter. Also consider any other flavourful ingredients such as fruit. |
 whites
(In rising order of sweetness):
Moscato Spumante
Asti (Italy)
Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise
French sweet Muscat vins de pays
Moscatel de Valencia (Spain)
Australian Liqueur Muscat
Coteaux du Layon
Sauternes
Premières Côtes de Bordeaux |
| Anchovy, tinned, salted |
(see also Janssens Frestelse/Janssen's Temptation) If anchovies are a strong element in your dish, a rosé wine may be best. Tannic reds and Cabernet flavour clash. Whites don't clash but don't especially chime in with the flavour. |
 Reds
Soft, unoaked red
 Tempranillo also matches (Spain)
 Rosés
 Tempranillo-based Rosés (Spain)
Syrah-based Rosés (France) |
| Apple crumble, stewed, pie, tart |
(see also Apple Strudel, Blackberry, and Tarte Tatin) Muscat, Semillon or Chenin Blancs are the grapes to look for -choose ones that are as sweet or sweeter than your dish. |
whites
Coteaux du Layon
Asti / Moscato Spumante
Sauternes
Premières Côtes de Bordeaux
Austrian Beerenauslese |
| Apple crumble, stewed, pie, tart with added cinnamon |
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whites
Sweet Semillon:
Sauternes
or Premières Côtes de Bordeaux |
| Apple crumble, stewed, pie, tart with added lemon zest |
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whites
Asti / Moscato Spumante |
| Apple crumble, stewed, pie, tart |
With crème patissière, custard or cream. |
whites
Sweet Semillon |
| Apple, baked |
Stuffings will influence wine matches. Try pouring a little inexpensive sweet Muscat over the apples for the last five minutes of cooking, then serve more of the same wine at table. |
whites
Spanish Moscatel de Valencia
or Southern French Muscat vin de pays. |
| Apple sauce (with roast meat) |
The sweetness in apple sauce will make dry wines taste dull and flat: bad news for reds and dry whites. Look for a wine with about the same sweetness as your apple sauce - a wine that will also go with the meat. |
whites
 Australian Verdelho - on the drier side, but so fruity that it copes brilliantly |
| Apple, with just a touch of sugar |
These wines also go well with roast pork or goose. |
whites
Mosel Riesling QbA
or Mosel Riesling Kabinett |
| Apple Strudel |
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whites
Sweet Muscats go well with the lemon zest:
Asti / Moscato
Australian Late Harvest Muscat
Southern French sweet Muscat
Moscatel de Valencia
Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise. |
