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Madeira Wine food Pairing: Quick & Simple Madeira Tapas board
Tapas, or using the correct Spanish name, pintxos, is an easy way out for all those days or evenings when a friend decides to unexpectedly show up at your house. It is also an ingenious solution for those days when you cannot be bothered to spend hours in the kitchen. As soon as you have… [Read more]
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Blue Mountain Winery: 2020 vintage wines review and food pairing ideas
Are you a wine enthusiast and have “seeking out affordable and quality wines” listed as your favourite sport? If you are located in the New World, you probably know that anything that makes it across the proverbial pond is way overpriced and hardly combines “affordable and quality” in one description. Common sense told us to… [Read more]
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How to Make and Eat Gravlax (Salt Cured Salmon): Psst…Try Baked Potato, Crème Fresh & Horseradish
Ever considered burying your food in sand before eating? Gravlax, a beloved Nordic treat, used to be prepared this way. While our recipe isn’t as extreme, we’re certain the end result will still impress you. [Read more]
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Simple Dutch kibbeling with delicious homemade garlic mayonnaise
Traditionally made of the salt cod offcuts, kibbeling is as quintessentially Dutch as fish and chips are quintessentially Irish. If not for mayonnaise-based garlic sauce and the fact that kibbeling is made of smaller chunks of cod, we would swear the two are the same. Whatever you call it, pair these deep-fried, battered chunks of… [Read more]
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Tasting of the very rare and special 1976 Henriques & Henriques Terrantez Madeira wine
Have you ever heard of the Terrantez grape varietal? It is special and rare and almost extinct. “Terrantez grapes, not for eating, nor giving away. God made them for wine!” reads an inscription on the wall of Blendy’s wine museum in Madeira, Portugal. But what does the wine made of Terrantez taste like? We had… [Read more]
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Salmon and prawns with chorizo sautéed potatoes, sauce Romesco
This dish is inspired by classic Spanish tapas and the Mediterranean recipes of New Zealand’s chef Mark Dronjak. Sauce Romesco, chorizo sautéed potatoes, and sweet and smoky paprika make this preparation burst with the flavours of Spain. An ultimate vacation in your dish, all in the comfort of your home. Pair it with Pinot Noir… [Read more]
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Michel Arnould Verzenay Rosé Brut Champagne
Not your typical rosé picnic wine! Michel Arnould Rosé Champagne bears a Grand Cru label for a reason. Despite its unknown but suspected great age, this wine shows quite well. More importantly, it does, what any wine, in our opinion, should do, pairs well with food. [Read more]
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Pinot Noir Rosé Tapas board
Once upon a time, you bump into a food dish with an extraordinarily unusual combination of ingredients. So unusual that you can’t keep yourself from quipping: “I bet you can’t find a wine match for THAT!” The food dish in question, a.k.a. “a challenge”, is a tapa, or using the correct Spanish name, a pintxo.… [Read more]
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Baharat Spiced Duck Breast with Roasted Red Beets Salad and Arugula
Cooking duck does not have to be difficult. In this step-by-step recipe, we share with you how to prepare a duck breast so that it has an incredibly crispy skin. Our pan-seared and oven-finished duck gets plenty of flavour from the Baharat rub. It is served with roasted red beets salad two ways and a… [Read more]