Menu Matcher - Pork

Pork is a meat that easily adapts to either red or white wine and can take quite a range of different sweetness when accompanied by the right side dish. Pork and prunes would be lovely with a rustic red from the Languedoc. Spicy barbecued ribs favour a fruity Aussie Shiraz and Roast Pork with Apple Sauce is great with a medium dry, grapey German white (try it and you will be converted).

Chardonnay 2010, Domaine St Hilaire, Languedoc

Unoaked, dry and elegant, a light wine with soft peachy fruit, and a hint of spice.

Beaujolais-Villages, 2009 Château de Grandmont

This is a rich, concentrated Villages with deep colours and plenty of black-cherry and raspberry fruit from a sublime vintage. Château de Grandmont is a 9ha. Property, situated in the commune of Blacé, about 15 minutes drive south of Château du Pavé. It is owned by Georges Michel (a wealthy businessman, based in la Réunion - a French dependency in the Pacific) and Jean Brac de la Perrière, the late Henri Brac de la Perrière's eldest son. Chris Piper has been the consultant wine-maker since 2001 and since 2002, there has been a severe investment in the vineyard.