Wine pairings

What Wine Goes With Everything

Pick a food. Get specific wine recommendations with the producer styles to look for. No jargon — just what to drink with what you’re cooking.

Red meat

Wine with Steak

The single best wine-and-food pairing on Earth, when you do it right.

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Red meat

Wine with Lamb

The Sunday-roast pairing every dinner host should know.

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Poultry

Wine with Chicken

Chicken is wine's most flexible meat. Match the sauce, not the protein.

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Poultry

Wine with Turkey & Thanksgiving

The most-asked wine question of the year, finally answered.

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Poultry

Wine with Duck

Pinot Noir's signature pairing — and worth the bottle every time.

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Pork

Wine with Pork

The most flexible meat for wine — it pairs as well with whites as it does with reds.

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Seafood

Wine with Salmon

The fish that breaks the white-wine-with-fish rule — and rewards you for it.

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Seafood

Wine with Sushi

The pairing where conventional wisdom fails — and bubbles win.

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Seafood

Wine with Lobster

The luxury pairing that's worth getting right.

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Seafood

Wine with Oysters

Sea + wine — the pairing where simpler is always better.

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Italian

Wine with Pasta

Pasta's wine match is the sauce — every time.

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Italian

Wine with Pizza

The everyday pairing that's better than you think.

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Cheese

Wine with Cheese

The most-loved-and-most-mishandled pairing on Earth.

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Spicy

Wine with Spicy food

The pairing where your favorite Cab will betray you — and Riesling saves the day.

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Casual

Wine with Burgers

The grown-up upgrade for a backyard classic.

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Casual

Wine with BBQ

Smoke, sweetness, spice — the holy trinity of BBQ deserves the right red.

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Dessert

Wine with Chocolate

The dessert pairing where 'sweet meets sweet' is the only rule that matters.

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Want the full theory?

Read the ultimate wine pairing guide — the four principles every great sommelier uses, with the food-by-food cheat sheet that makes pairings click.