Wine Pairings for 3 separate meals: Eggs Tomato Coconut Sauce (Sambal Goreng) Spinach Naan | Pork (Truffled) Creamed Peas Kohlrabi Fries | Tomato Pepper Zucchini Pasta (Spanish) - The Athan Zafirov Wine Blog
I am looking for some ideas for wine pairing for three different evenings and meals and was wondering what you guys could come up with:
The first is Eggs in Spicy Tomato Coconut Sauce (Sambal Goreng) & Spinach Naan. Recipe(s) on which it is based, to give an idea: https://enjoythegoodlife.nl/sambal-goreng-telor-pittige-eieren/ and https://www.spainonafork.com/homemade-spinach-flatbread-with-saffron-yogurt-sauce/ The hot spices&tomato and fatiness of coconut&eggs make me look for a high acid white. Something refreshing, perhaps a Paul Thomas Silex Sancerre 2018? What I think would also work is a nice champagne, and I do have a Chartogne-Taillet Saint Anne Brut available. I'd also dare try a Riesling and I have 3 available: Allram Ried Gaisberg 1 ÖTW Riesling 2018, Schloss Johannisberg Gelblack Riesling Trocken 2019 and Markus Molitor Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Spätlese 2018. Finally, I also am thinking about a Chardonnay, which has been a while and in that sense I do have a fresh&easy Wines from Hahn Estate Chardonnay 2018 Monterey County availalbe.
The second meal is a Pork (Truffled) with Creamed Peas and Kohlrabi Fries. Recipes to give an idea: https://www.ikwilafvallen.nu/recepten/gezonde-koolraapfrietjes/ and https://domesticdreamboat.com/creamed-peas/#wprm-recipe-container-11282 This seems like it would be nice with a right-bank Bordeaux (left-bank would likely be a bit too powerful?). Perhaps a Château Beau-Sejour Becot Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Premier Grand Cru Classé) 2001 or perhaps Chateau Sanctus Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2005. On the other hand, it might also work well with a Pinot Noir, and I do have a German Pinot (Spatburgunder) available: August Kesseler The Daily August Pinot Noir 2018.
The third meal is Tomato Pepper Zucchini Pasta (Spanish). Recipes to give an idea: https://www.spainonafork.com/one-pan-spanish-garlic-pasta-easy-recipe/ While this is seasoned with Spanish spices, likely a fruity Italian with some body would still work best. I do have an Nativ Eremo San Quirico 2009 Irpinia Campi Taurasini available. I'd also dare go for one of the Bordeauxs from above. Don't have a high-acid Italian red at the moment. I do have aninteresting white Spanish wine that might also work, a Muga Blanco Fermentado en Barrica 2019 Rioja.
What do you think? Apologies for the many ideas and long post. Looking for feedback on my ideas and suggestions from you but I do tend to get excited in Food&Wine Pairing (also tomorrow the CSW exam so wine is on my mind)
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