Guides

Short guides to help you get the most out of the wine you have: what to buy, what to pour with dinner, how to serve it and when to open it. Written for people who cook, not people who study, and each one fits in the time it takes the pasta water to boil.

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  Build a cellar for the way you cook

  An interactive planner: tap the dinners you cook and it builds your first case of twelve as you go, with how each wine tastes and which dinner it’s for. Then how to grow the collection, dish by dish.

  Interactive planner · 3 minute read

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  What to open with what you're cooking

  Sorted by what's in the pan: tomato, cream, roast meat, fish, chilli, vegetables, cheese and dessert. The reason for each, and what to open if you don't have it.

  5 minute read

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  How cold to serve wine, and how long an open bottle keeps

  Serving temperatures, how long a bottle takes to chill or warm up, and how many days an opened bottle stays good.

  3 minute read

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  Drink now, or keep for later?

  How long each kind of wine stays at its best, how to tell a bottle that’s past it, and which bottle to open first.

  3 minute read