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If you like strongly aromatic lamb dishes, and flavoursome, oaky wines (red or white), then read on.
The BBC recipe Rioja-braised lamb shanks with chorizo and garlic, by Lorraine Pascale, is my recipe for today’s thoughts on wine pairing with lamb.
Is it about wine pairing with lamb specifically? No, it is about, as …

English wine or British wine? According to an episode of the UK Channel 4 programme Food Unwrapped, we do not know what the difference is, and that needs to be cleared up!
The programme examined the differences between these two types of wine, and interviewed an English wine producer who told us that …

Wine with chocolate, two of my favourite things so I am happy to report back on a wonderful experience I had with a wine with chocolate dessert pairing this week.
So when pairing wine with chocolate, the absolute important fact here is that, for most people, if you match sugar sweetness …

Ice wine – what is it we love … or really do not like at all,  about this wine?!?
Ice wine is a rare, very sweet wine which fits the range on the WSET® Systematic Approach to Tasting of ‘lusciously’ sweet, but I noticed that some of my current WSET Level 2 …

Wine pairing with duck? is question that comes up a lot on my WSET courses, a favourite of yours?
So while researching a wine pairing with duck recipe this week, we discovered a delicious recipe by Theo Randall on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen: Pappardelle with braised duck, peaches, cinnamon and cream.
The ingredients …

Wine pairing with chicken is a bit of an open question, and we could be here all day discussing the possibilities, so I decided to see what the celebrity chefs are doing with chicken this week, which prompted me to watch the episode by the Hairy Bikers when they travelled to …

Wine pairing with cheese
Recently I was luckily enough to visit Le Gavroche with a group of friends that share my love of trying good food, and wine, and also seeing how they react with each other. We went for the set-lunch deal and what good value that was; my only slight regret …

Whilst doing some research in to the topic of wine pairing with pork, I came across a new word today so looked it up and ended up thinking about food and wine pairing. The word was ‘gremolata’.
So for chefs and crossword puzzle addicts alike here is what it is according …

Smoked salmon, now that is one of my favourites, but I have to say as with my wine I have got fussy over the years and do like it pretty well smoked.
Two years ago we hired a VW Campervan and headed off for a wee trip around some of Scotland. …

Thank you to everyone, including 38 small businesses, that came along to my launch event last night, a truly great night thanks to a room full of enthusiastic, friendly, fun people. Looking forward to seeing everyone grow and benefit from networking and supporting each other.
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