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Food & wine pairing

What are you cooking?

Include the sauce and how you are cooking it. The tool compares the dish with wine structure and explains the suggested matches.

How we have read your dish

Recognised: Chilli, Hare, Spicy.

Rich and substantialHot spiceSavoury

Adjust the chilli setting to suit the way you cook this dish.

Wine suggestions for your dish

Region
Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, Italy
Grape
Corvina
Wine type
Red wine
Rating
4.3 / 5 · around 120k ratings

Its recorded body can stand alongside a substantial dish · Lower recorded tannin avoids adding a drying edge to spice · The catalogue also records a pairing with this food family · Consider: Higher alcohol may amplify chilli heat

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Retails around €43–€45

Barefoot

Merlot

Region
California, United States
Grape
Merlot
Wine type
Red wine
Rating
3.5 / 5 · around 31k ratings

Its recorded body can stand alongside a substantial dish · Lower recorded tannin avoids adding a drying edge to spice

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Beringer Main & Vine

White Zinfandel

Region
California, United States
Grape
Zinfandel
Wine type
Rosé wine
Rating
3.7 / 5 · around 12k ratings

Its recorded alcohol level is a gentler choice alongside chilli · The catalogue also records a pairing with this food family

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Pair dinner with your own wine

Membership adds more suggestions and uses your saved preferences and feedback. You can also restrict the results to bottles in your cellar.

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Around 500 food, dish and preparation profiles in the library.

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How the matching works

Matching considers the dish’s weight, richness, acidity, sweetness and heat alongside the available wine structure. Member results also use saved preferences and feedback. We leave missing wine details unknown rather than filling them in.

Read more about food and wine pairing in Virginia Tech’s food and wine guidance.

Food and wine pairing for your dish | WineVery