What wine goes with pickled egg soufflé?
Drinking Sauternes with fish tells us about a lot more than your palate.
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“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…
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