Looking to impress your friends at your next dinner party? Check out this incredibly useful food and wine pairing list from Wine Folly [1].
Get inspired by these everyday food and wine pairings. For example, love chicken tacos? Try them with white Vinho Verde wine!
- Food Wine: A wine that makes food taste better.
- Cocktail Wine: A wine that tastes best when drunk on its own.
You already know cocktail wines. They are the quintessential "100-point" wine [2]. A drink-your-dinner wine. Something that's so insanely complex and complete that food would just sour the experience.
But we can't survive on wine alone, even if it sounds like a good idea. Fortunately, there is a whole class of wines out there — the food wines — that are designed for this purpose. Food wines are rapidly growing in popularity. Not only are they affordable, but they will make things taste better.
- Chicken Tacos and Vinho Verde
- Cheesy Puffs and Chenin Blanc
- French Fries and Sparkling Wine
- Fried Chicken and Moscato
- Buffalo Wings and Lambrusco Dolce
- Fish and Chips (England Style w/ Tartar Sauce and Mushy Peas) and Chilled Sercial Madeira
- Red Bean Chili and Cava
- A BLT Sandwich and White Zinfandel
- Meatball Sandwiches and Carménère
- Pulled Pork Sandwiches and Petite Sirah
- Lamb Gyros and Nebbiolo
- Chicken Salad and Grüner Veltliner
- Steamed Pork Dumplings and Gewürztraminer
- Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Quiche and Chardonnay
- Moo Sho Pork and Riesling
- Veggie Macro Bowl and Vermentino
- Sushi and Muscadet
- Vietnamese Fresh Rolls and Furmint
- Asian Barbecue and Red Zinfandel
- Beef Brisket and Red Bordeaux
