Menu Matcher - Beef

Beef is not that difficult to match to wine and it is really down to finding the right weight of wine to the dish. The noble rib served on a Sunday needs a serious claret or northern Rhône (younger wines with rarer meat and older, smoother wines with better done joints), a sticky casserole a Shiraz, Zinfandel or new world Cabernet and the homemade burger in a bun works so well with a fruity Italian Dolcetto.

Château Gloria 2000 - Cru Bourgeois, St. Julien

This beautiful Bordeaux fruit bomb offers abundant notes of black currants, herbs, cherries, cedar, and spice box. Fleshy and medium to full-bodied with no hard edges, the 2000 Gloria is a total thrill to consume. Drink now to 2025. Henri Martin, Gloria's owner and once Mayor of Saint Julien was one of Médoc's legendary figures. In 1956 he became President of the Interprofessional Committee of Bordeaux Wines. Beginning in the 1940's, Henri Martin assembled the vineyards of Château Gloria with parcels of land from such neighbouring vineyards as Léoville-Poyferré, Gruaud-Larose, Saint Pierre and Duhart-Milon. The property is now run and managed by his son-in-law, Jean-Louis Triaud.

Cornellana Merlot, 2011 - Viña La Rosa, Rapel Valley, Chile

This is a wonderfully smooth red wine which can easily be drunk without food. A brilliant Merlot from an area that is producing some of the best Chilean wines.A deep red wine with classic Merlot characteristics; soft with concentrated ripe fruit in particular cherries plums and blackberries.