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Category: Sparkling Wine

  • Miso-Marinated Sablefish With Butternut Squash Purée And Forbidden Rice

    Discover a perfect balance of flavors and enjoy a restaurant-quality meal at home with this fusion masterpiece. Featuring the timeless elegance of a Japanese style miso-marinated black cod with the vibrant zest of orange-infused butternut squash puree this dish is guaranteed to impress. [Read more]

  • Apple Rosettes: Stunning Puff Pastry Dessert For Special Occasions

    Seeking puff pastry ideas? Your search ends here! Introducing apple rosettes! With it’s simple ingredients, this puff pastry dessert recipe won’t break a bank. But once you make it, it’ll look like a million dollars [Read more]

  • Champagne Food Pairing: Oyster and Scallops Motoyaki with wine-infused shallots

    Why Motoyaki? Simply put, there’s nothing quite like the taste of fresh oysters. But we get it! Not everybody is a fan of slurping live oysters and hearing them scream for the oyster police.That’s where Motoyaki comes in – it’s the perfect solution for those who love the flavour of oysters but want them cooked… [Read more]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • Steelhead Salmon roulade, grilled asparagus, sauce Romesco

    Why roulade? Because Salmon retains its moisture really well when cooked in a roll. Plus, salmon looks really cool when prepared this way. Serve these delicious salmon bundles to your guests, and they will keep on oohing and aaahing even when the party is long over. Better yet, pair these with Pinot Noir Rosé Champagne… [Read more]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • Schramsberg old sparkling wines review

    Undoubtedly you’ve heard the saying, fine wine tastes better with age. But is it true? Question of spoilage aside, what makes a bottle of wine you are tasting now a far cry from the identical bottle of wine, vintage and all, that you tasted some five years ago? In this piece, we talk about the… [Read more]