START HERE 📃 | The 101 on how wine pairs best with food

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Jan 12, 2023

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Welcome to Dosage! A weekly breakdown that’s dedicated to the art of pairing wine first, and followed by food.

If you’re new to this page and unsure where to begin, you’re in the right place. I’ll keep this post updated with previous issues and themes that I cover, so you know where to look.

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Past issue catalogue 📕

Wine with food.

In these issues, I’ve put together some thoughts on different types of wine and where foods go best.

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#5: Wine with Food | REDS 🔴

A late good morning! I’m really excited to get into the bones of why I started this project in the first place. I want this post to be a handy toolkit that you’ve hopefully landed on, or can pin for another time. If you have any questions, drop me a comment or pop something in the chat…

6 months ago · 7 likes · Dan Scott

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#6: Wine with Food | ⚪️ WHITES

Hello Again, Deep into Christmas and Winter we go. Which makes it red wine season! Wrong, on so many levels in my book. I’m more of a white drinker these days to red, I much prefer the slurriness to the sleepiness you get with one too many glasses (not that it happens all that much). I find it a lot more drinkable on its own, but can really sharpen or bri…

6 months ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Dan Scott

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#7: Wine with Food | 💕 🥂 ROSÉ AND FIZZ

Greetings! Sorry this week is a little late across, COVID 3.0 dropped in Dosage HQ. Thankfully taste and smell have only been dented slightly! This is the third instalment of four that I’m planning on different styles of wines, for now at least. This is probably the most fun, and camp. While there’s a bit of a rep for cheap n’ nasty in this category, th…

6 months ago · 2 likes · Dan Scott

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#8: Wine with Food | 🌕 🟢 🟠 🫧 YELLOW, GREEN, ORANGE... AND THE REST

Hello Again! Back on track to bring you the last installation slash whistlestop tour of the different wines of the world. It’s hard to make this THE most encompassing wine pairing source just yet, but I will certainly be updating these with more options, palettes and flavours as we go…

5 months ago · 1 like · Dan Scott

Wine pairing recipes | VINSPO

Here, I take a different grape and wine style to pair with a particular recipe I’ve come up with. I’ve tried to categorise them by grape style for ease.

REDS

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#12: Vinspo | GARNACHA X BEEF + GUINNESS STEW 🍲

This week, I’ve gone a little off the beaten track with the wine and the pairing - and it’s DEFINITELY knocking any dry January plans off your radar. Chances are, they’re off the cards anyway.Thanks for reading Dosage! Subscribe to get a weekly suggestion on how wine goes well with food…

5 months ago · 1 like · Dan Scott

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#10: Vinspo | XINOMAVRO X UMAMILICIOUS LEFTOVER TURKEY RISOTTO 🍚

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! I’ve been busy building this new branch to Dosage, which I hope you like. This was meant to go live in the new year, but I HAD to bring it up first since we’re in the festive season. If you’ve had any roast poultry over the holidays and are done with curries, pies or sandwiches - I bring you this little number th…

5 months ago · 4 likes · Dan Scott

[More coming soon to try and keep this as blended as possible!]

WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS

More focused on wine itself, here’s my place I write about wineries, vineyards and all of the fun stuff before we move to what’s in the bottle.

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#2: Where the Magic Happens | KENT VINEYARDS 🥾

Hello Again! Bit later than I was hoping on issue 2, and hoping a Saturday afternoon is an appropriate (ish) time for this to land in your inbox and quench your thirst before the Sunday scaries. This time, I’m telling you about a misty Saturday morning out of my usual lie in to pick some grapes, and I thought I’d share the experience here. Also, what I’v…

7 months ago · 1 like · Dan Scott

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#3: Where the Magic Happens | URBAN WINERIES 🌆

Hello Again! London Wine? It’s becoming quite the trend, I’ll have you know. I journeyed out to Renegade Winery, just under a 10 minute trot from Blackhorse Road. While the Bermondsey Beer Mile is now something of a rite of passage for any South East Londoner or Stag/Hen that’s held in London (fun, chaotic and essential), the Walthamstow Beer Mile is now …

7 months ago · 1 like · Dan Scott

OFF-PISS*D

I haven’t really got a home for these just yet. Stories of travels, food and miscellaneous bits that I want to blab about, but only once in a blue moon!

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#4: Off-Piss*d | MEXICO 🌵 🍹 🍷 🌮

Greetings! A little late on this post, jet lag is a nightmare. I’ve just been in Mexico for a glorious 10 days, so I thought I’d give a little segue for this edition of Dosage into what’s happening around wines and spirits there. Highly recommended holiday if you haven’t been already, which I will try to get through concisely. For food, it’s probably th…

7 months ago · 2 likes · Dan Scott

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#9: LAST MIN XMAS WINES 🌲

We’re writing our work out of offices around now, but not quite peeling potatoes and jumping on bins to compress used wrapping paper. In panic mode about Christmas? About now is just the time to panic, and beef up for the dreaded village/supermarket/shopping centre run before Sunday hits…

5 months ago · 3 likes · Dan Scott

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#11: Takeaway Twinning | NYE 🥂

As New Year looms, the heat is on to have that PERFECT party or night out. It can be a fabulous evening, but also one that totally oversells and under delivers. Why do we torture ourselves for the most chaotic night of the year, risking no way of a taxi back or even being able to breathe in such a cramped space? You might sense some PTSD from previous n…

5 months ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Dan Scott

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