What wine goes with pickled egg soufflé?

Drinking Sauternes with fish tells us about a lot more than your palate.

“Men think, dream and act according to what they eat and drink.”

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

In the 1980’s there was a story of a cockney millionaire whose favourite meal was fish and chips which he served with sweet white Sauternes. It was a tale passed around wine lovers gleefully as the height of food and wine matching vulgarity.

But was it really so vul…