South African Wine Pairing Guides
Wine pairing isn't a science. It's not even really a skill. It's a handful of useful rules and a lot of personal taste. These guides are the rules, the way we would explain them at the counter – short, useful, and built around the food South Africans actually eat.
The Braai Pairing Guide
The braai isn't one meal. It's a category – chops, boerewors, sosaties, snoek, lamb, chicken, the side dishes, the salads, the inevitable pap and sous. Different bits of the braai want different wines.
Here's how Danie thinks about it.
Garden Route Seafood Pairings
If you live anywhere near the Garden Route, fresh fish is a way of life.
Here's a no-nonsense guide to which bottles work best with which catch.
Written for the home cook, not the sommelier.
Cheese & Charcuterie
A proper cheese board is a wine merchant's playground.
There's no single bottle that works with everything, so most of the time you'll want at least one red and one white on the table. Here's how to think about it.
Dessert Wine & Sweet Pairings
Sweet wine is one of the most underused tools in the wine cabinet. The trick is making sure the wine is at least as sweet as what you're eating, or the wine will taste thin and the dessert will overpower it.
A few classic pairings.
