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The best wines to pair with British asparagus
Home-grown asparagus is finally back in the shops – and so are the wines to go with it
Asparagus marries perfectly with dry, crisp but fairly fruity, unoaked whites
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Now the season for British asparagus is upon us (and hooray for that), the question of which wine to match with it arises. This is considered a thorny issue by some, who put asparagus in the category of “difficult food with wine”, alongside artichokes, pickles, smoked mackerel and so on.
They mustn’t. True, red wines are best avoided, as they clash with that green sappy flavour, but once you exclude those, there are some truly blissful marriages to be made. The rule of thumb is to pick dry, crisp but fairly fruity, unoaked whites.
Helen Stiles
Published:
5:54 PM April 26, 2021
Bacchus Dry 2018 and Bothen Hill s asparagus - an award-winning combo you can order by post
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The start of the asparagus season in mid-April is always an exciting time for foodies, especially when those spears are grown locally and can be paired with a very special Dorset wine. Last year, Furleigh Estate, the award-winning vineyard at Salwayash in West Dorset, and their neighbours Chip and Anita de Greeff of Bothen Hill (winner of the 2019 BOOM Best of Organic Market Awards) combined two English seasonal classics: Furleigh Estate’s Bacchus white wine and Bothen Hill’s organic asparagus.