wine-pairings

Let's say it loud and proud: spring has sprung, and it's time to freshen up your Spanish wine repertoire accordingly with wines from Ribera y Rueda.

Drinking sake with sushi may be a no-no. If you usually order a carafe of hot rice wine to pair with your sushi deluxe, you'll want to know why.

Every wonder how to drink wine with Thai food? Thai and alcohol tend to go hand-in-hand, so take a break from Singha and bust out a bottle of vino.

While most people pack their shorts away and mope about summer’s demise, people who love to cook are rejoicing. Sure, beach days might be gone, but so are days that are just too stinking hot to think about turning on your oven or undertaking a long, weekend-worthy cooking project. Bye-bye lobster rolls and rosé, hello…

How do you pair wine with lobster rolls? It can be a little tricky, but these sommeliers have a special Spanish trick up their sleeves.

Tapas and wine: it’s a pairing so natural, we rarely consider what might elevate the flavors of your pan con tomate, jamón Ibérico or creamy croquetas. But these small plates go with a range of drinks as varied as the tapas themselves.On a recent trip to Spain’s “Tapas Trail,” a collection of villages and winemaking regions…

To pair some of our favorite soups with a wine that does them justice, we turned to master sommelier Brahm Callahan. Here's what we found.

The editors of Food & Wine magazine have a cookbook out that will bring new life to your pantry and give your favorite kitchen staples a much-needed makeover. Take 50 popular ingredients and transform them into 200 easy-to-make recipes for everyone at your table.  Serve With: Toasted baguette slices. Pairing Wine: Citrusy, medium-bodied Spanish white, such…

A loaded clambake is one of the iconic meals of summertime: Boiled or steamed lobsters (preferably in seawater) with golden clarified butter, buckets of clams and mussels, shell-on shrimp, freshly shucked corn on the cob, boiled potatoes, smoked sausage, crusty bread and something to wash it all down. Something...but what? And how much do you spend?…

Gigantic, well-worn hands deftly mold dough balls as the dome of a wood-fired oven nearby emanates an incendiary glow. No, this isn’t a Food Network show starring a giant from Game of Thrones. This is the open kitchen of Pizza Romana, Alex Palermo’s Roman-style pizzeria in Hollywood.Neapolitan, New York and Chicago styles have adherents, but Palermo grew…

A lot of people consider giving up booze for the month of January. But for a more civilized detox, you might consider going vegetarian instead. It’s a great way to recover from the excesses of the holiday season while still enjoying a glass of wine with dinner. As for what to pair with each vegetable…

Every year, it’s the same story: what to pair with the Thanksgiving Day meal. Here’s a newsflash for you: nothing pairs with the Thanksgiving Day meal. Or rather, so many different wines pair with so many different parts of the meal that trying to match one or two to the spread is an exercise in…

If a juicy, fatty steak can pair with three gin martinis just as well as with a bottle of big, oaky red, it’s clearly a more versatile meal than it gets credit for. The picture of the steakhouse dinner, with fat executives ordering $300 bottles of Barolo and California Cabernet, certainly is accurate. It’s probably…

Chilled zucchini soup with pine nuts and a splash of peppery olive oil.[/caption] Toasting the birth of America with Bordeaux Blanc.[/caption] Over a weekend when everybody was celebrating the best things of America —independence, grilled meat, the United States of Craft Beer — a few of us were busy sticking our noses in an assortment…

Di Bruno Bros. collaborated on a cheese book with serious attitude. And smarts. Photos by Jason Varney   Emilio Mignucci and Tenaya Darlington are a dynamic pair. Fueled by passion for good cheese above all else, they flitted around The Little Owl event space in the West Village (where we throw parties!), tossing around metaphors…

Pairing wine with food can be a tricky process. Sure, there are some basic rules — how many times have we all heard that red wine goes with red meat and white wine goes with white meat and fish? But wine pairings will always be somewhat subjective. After all, who would have thought that a…

Thanksgiving is in just a few days and if you’re like me, it snuck up on you too. Luckily, choosing what wine you drink will be far easier than planning your menu. By following a few simple rules, you can have all your palate-pleasing vinos picked out before T-day, so you only have to worry…

The fig is said to be among the very first plants domesticated by the very first farmers in the hot and arid Middle East. These agricultural innovators likely discovered early just how easy it is to propagate a new fig tree; by planting a fig branch in the ground, a new tree identical to the…

I used to drink seasonally — white wines in the summertime, reds in the winter. Over time, I noticed the white season getting longer. Wine isn’t like pants, after all: no white ones after Labor Day. But, among wine folk, there has long been a stigma attached to whites. They aren’t always taken as seriously…

It sometimes happens that chefs become farmers, bartenders get into distilling, and sommeliers start making their own wine. It’s a natural progression – you work with a material long enough that you get tempted to make it yourself. That’s what happened with Jordan Salcito, anyway. As the wine director at Crown, the latest New York…

Make sure to check out all of our Thanksgiving coverage, including a booze pairing guide and a holiday potluck with our friends on the Internet. The list of things that can go wrong on Thanksgiving Day is virtually endless. Too much booze, or not enough to comfortably deal with your extended family. Unexpected guests, unintentionally…

On a recent visit to Danji, which last week earned itself a star and high praise from the New York Times, the bartender recommended I pair my pajeon (scallion pancake) with a little rice wine. I wasn’t in the mood for sake, I told him, but what he served me was very different indeed. Makkoli…

For the majority of consumers, Italy is synonymous with red wine. No other country in the world — except, perhaps, France — is home to more reds whose names instantly bring to mind a familiar wine than Italy. Chianti. Barolo. Nero d’Avola. These are some of the classic names of the wine firmament. But to…

Mention Italian wine to most people and thoughts of Chianti immediately come to mind. This is both the boot’s blessing and its curse: Its most famous wine, its most emblematic one, is among the most instantly recognizable in the world. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s far from the only one…

Spiny lobsters are impressive creatures. This warm-water cousin to Maine lobsters does not have any large claws but does have extremely long antennae. They are delicious grilled and easy to prepare. Feel free to substitute Maine lobsters if you are not lucky enough to obtain the spiny lobsters. *Read through to the directions for wine…