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Food & Drink Pairings

Looking for a fabulous wine to pair with your antipasto? The main concept behind pairings is that certain elements (such as texture and flavour) in both food and drink interact with each other.

This interaction if paired well, will bring together flavours in solid form and flavours in liquid form to create a third, delicious set of flavours, bringing about something you wouldn’t have tasted if you hadn’t tried them together.  

Check out these delicious wine, beer and spirit matches as pictured and detailed below:

Food Snob Artichoke Hearts –

Beer: Pacifico – Clean & cuts through. Lifts the pickle / saltiness

Wine: Wither Hills Rose

Spiritous: A delicious, light Sangria like Sangria Flora would be brilliant here. Mart Bianco, Saint Germain elderflower Liqueur, apple, soda, mint..

Food Snob Pitted olives –

Beer: Emerson’s Bookbinder. Rich and robust, works really well with these olives.

Wine: Huntaway Pinot Gris

Spiritous: Dark & Stormy with Appleton’s Rum

Food Snob Semi Dried tomatoes –

Beer: Mac’s Three Wolves Pale Ale

Spiritous: Rosita – A Tequila-based take on the classic Negroni cocktail. Made with Cuervo Tradicional Reposado Tequila

Food Snob Bulgarian Feta –

Beer: Great white OR Negro Modello

Wine: Te Whare Ra ‘D’ Riesling

Food Snob Danish feta –

Wine: Huntaway Pinot Gris

Food Snob Sicilian olives –

Beer: Speight’s Triple Hop Pilsner

Spiritous: Chilled Noilly Prat dry Vermouth & Ricadonna Prosecco, served in a flute  with a lemon zest

Food Snob Bell Peppers – 

Beer: Mac’s Sassy Red

Food Snob Preserved lemons –

Beer: Emerson’s 1812