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Having a bunch of food lovers over for dinner this week and looking for great wine pairings for: squash and ginger soup; braised veal shank with red wine and garlic; pear upside down cake. Any suggestions?

OK, maybe I'm getting a little carried away with my experimentation. This past Sunday I made a traditional French wine-and-fish stew called a matelote. I've had them in several parts of France, including Alsace where the...

Our local big liquor store chain who is generally pretty unbeatable for prices on wine, beer and liquor, had a BV tasting at one of their locations tonight. It was quite far away, but I knew they were including the...

dmcker, I would certainly like to have your recipe for the ragout of baby squids with garlic, leeks and zinfandel in the sauce. Sounds wonderful, and I'd like to see how it pairs with a Sparkling Red that I received in my...

Claybe - in fact, nothing is a good pairing with the Thanksgiving dinner. Someone mentioned a chardonnay overpowering the sides - it will be precisely the opposite problem. Think about it - you have turkey. Let's...

Zufrieden, as I mentioned in my first post, I do generally prefer whites (though more often chardonnays and sauvignon blancs, just as often muscadets, and nearly as often albarinos and picpouls, as rieslings) with seafood,...

I believe a sparkling wine might do a good job, try something rosé, it´s hard to have a single wine pairing with all the meal. It would go really well with the acidity of apple and onions (if there isn´t too much of it...

I'm hosting a dinner party and am trying to find the perfect wine(s). The basic menu (I'm trying fall foods) is: Apple Cider Chicken (contains apples, onions, and thyme) Brussels Sprouts with Bacon Squash Some form of...

Wineboy, your dish sounds delicious but I'm also concerned about the sauce. New Zealand's export lamb is killed young but still maintains a stronger flavour profile than most lamb from elsewhere so I too would try to...