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If you’re looking for the perfect wine to match with Asian food, look no further! Alsace wines’ purity of fruit, good acidity and low levels of tannin make them the perfect accompaniment for a host of cuisine styles including Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese and many more…

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The Alsace Wine Wizard helps you select the perfect Alsace wine to accompany all of your favourite foods. Simply click on your food choice, follow the simple instructions and our wizard will do all of the work for you, time and time again.

The webcasts and video links on this site feature a range of experts, wines and top tips. New videos and links are frequently posted so there is always something new to discover.

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Discovering food and Alsace wines matching with Joanna Simon and Xavier Rousset

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Discovering food and Alsace wines matching with Joanna Simon and Xavier Rousset (Episode 10)
 

In this episode, Joanna Simon and Xavier Rousset - Sommelier and owner of London's 28:50 and Texture restaurants - taste examples of Alsace's fabulously food-friendly Riesling grape from Domaine Weinbach and Cave de Beblenheim. From young, high acidity wines which are perfect with sushi and spicy Asian dishes to mature, older vintages that are delicious with creamy chicken recipes, it is Riesling's purity of fruit and vibrancy that makes it a perfect match to a huge variety of foods.

Discovering Alsace Wines with Joanna Simon : Vendanges Tardives

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Discovering Alsace Wines with Joanna Simon : Vendanges Tardives (Episode 12)

In this final episode of our series, wine expert Joanna Simon meets Etienne Hugel from Hugel et Fils and Paul McKirdy of Domaine Zind-Humbrecht to taste the famous dessert wines from Alsace -Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles.
Harvested last of all and taking around three hours of labour to produce one bottle of wine, these raisined grapes produce delicious, honeyed wines full of flavours of candied orange, apricot, dates and figs. Just perfect for a variety of dessert and cheese dishes.

To find out the perfect accompaniment to Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Malay and Thai Cuisine, click on Joanna's colum HERE.

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