Wine with your takeaway: here’s how to do it
There are days when you don’t feel like cooking. That’s when the Chinese takeaway or snack bar around the corner comes in handy. But of course, that doesn’t automatically mean you have to drink a pint of beer or a Coke with it. Because wine with greasy food? It can absolutely work!
Greasy food with a glass of wine?!
Isn’t that sacrilege? Not at all, you really can find suitable wines for fries, croquettes or frikandel. But if your snack is spicy, fatty and/or salty, it’s useful to know which wines make for good snacking.
Useful guidelines
There are two simple guidelines. If you choose white, go for a style with a fresh taste, as a counterbalance. Fresh wines are tastiest with fried snacks. A glass of Sauvignon Blanc goes perfectly with fries. Even better: champagne! The acidity of the bubbly cuts nicely through the saltiness and fat. If you prefer red, don’t choose a complex or refined wine. So no full-bodied Bordeaux or another wine with lots of tannins. Snacks are salty, which makes this type of wine taste more astringent. But a little oak aging is perfectly fine. There’s only one greasy food-and-wine disaster: salted cocktail nuts.
13 x ordering and drinking
Ordering a satay skewer?
Drink a Chardonnay
Ordering sweet-and-sour chicken from the Chinese takeaway?
Drink a Gewürztraminer
Ordering wonton soup?
Drink a Rosé or Champagne
Ordering a Thai creamy curry?
Drink a Chardonnay
Ordering Thai fish with coriander, ginger and basil?
Drink a Sauvignon Blanc
Ordering a Mexican burrito?
Drink a Merlot or Beaujolais
Ordering a BBR (Surinamese brown beans with rice)?
Drink Champagne
Ordering an Indian Masala?
Drink a Merlot
Ordering an Indian Tandoori?
Drink a Gewürztraminer
Ordering fries?
Drink a Sauvignon Blanc (or go all out and choose Champagne)
Ordering a veal croquette?
Drink an oaked Chardonnay
Ordering a beef croquette?
Drink a lightly chilled red wine, a Bardolino, or a Beaujolais Villages
Ordering a hamburger?
Drink an (Australian) Shiraz
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