Food Pairings
Cava Food Pairings
Like many other sparkling wines, Cava is great for a variety of food pairings. The famous fizz from Spain has somewhat fallen away in popularity within the UK sparkling wine market in recent years especially thanks to the emergence of Prosecco (DOC especially) and Champagne’s consistent popularity. What is Cava? A sparkling wine (white or…
Raspberry Prosecco Trifle
Get ready for a delicious treat, combining Prosecco, Raspberries, Sponge Fingers, Custard and Cream together for a wonderful dessert to enjoy after dinner or in the garden during the summer. We aren’t just going to be enjoying a glass of Prosecco with this dessert pairing, we’ll also be including it in the trifle, scroll on…
Eggs Benedict With Sparkling Wine
This very popular and much-enjoyed breakfast and even brunch dish comes from the land of America. When looking to make your own classic Eggs Benedict, it consists of an English muffin, split in half, with a few slices of Canadian Bacon, a Poached Egg placed on each half, then they are covered in Hollandaise Sauce….
Sparkling Wine With Salted Dark Chocolate Tart
Get ready for something delicious, something scrumptious and something toothsome, we be making, eating and pairing a Salted Dark Chocolate Tart, with a wonderful Vintage Slovenian Sparkling Wine from the Winery of Medot. The history of Chocolate Tarts is more of a recent tale, Chocolate throughout the centuries has been a rather exclusive commodity, it…
Walnut Potica and Slovenian Sparkling Wine
Let’s combine two wonderful creations from the small European country of Slovenia, with some of their Sparkling Wines and their national dish of Potica. Potica is considered a Slovenian dessert, made more often from bread than a cake, but always including nuts of the baker’s choice, we’ve gone with the popular walnut. Potica (pronounced poh-TEET-za)…
Prosecco and Food – Gnocchi with Tomato and Basil Sauce
Let’s Enjoy a Taste of Italy Gnocchi is a traditional pasta dish that originated during Roman times. During the expansion of the Roman Empire, the Roman legions brought back a recipe from somewhere the Europe. That recipe consisted of a semolina porridge-like dough mixed with eggs. The potatoes were only added to the Gnocchi recipe…
Champagne and Salmon
If we dive into the ocean for a minute we’ll soon come into contact with one of the stars of this article, we often enjoy the savoury, salty flavours of Salmon, a fish, that if left alone, will die in the place it was born. Our second star of this article comes from the grounds…
Sparkling Wine and Black Forest Gâteau
The famous and delicious Black Forest Gâteau that originated in Germany, will today be paired with a well-known German Sparkling Wine. The Black Forest Gâteau is a popular German dessert, in Germany, it is called Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte which translates to ‘Black Forest Cherry Gateau’. It is a chocolate sponge cake with a cherry filling and…
Pastries and Champagne
To honor a very worthy Trophy Winner, we’ve created a heavenly pairing of pastries including Croissants, Pain au Chocolats, Cinnamon Swirls, Vanilla Crowns and Raspberry Danish to pair with Champagne Roger-Constant Lemaire – Cuvée Trianon which won the Trophy in the Pastries Delight Category. Pastries Delight A wine showing a yeasty, brioche, nutty character. I’m…