Great matches
When serving Blue cheese, match it with a couple of these delicious accompaniments to really bring out its best:
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Figs – fresh or dried
- Fresh, ripe pear
- Port-soaked prunes
- Fruit pastes – quince, plum
- Sourdough or fruit bread
- Lavender honey
- Walnuts
Blue Cheese and Wine
Blue cheese loves a contrasting wine, something sweet to balance the salt and piquancy of blue. ‘Stickies’ and fortifieds are the most successful matches.
Sometimes the combination of blue cheese and red wine can form an unsavoury partnership with a strong, almost metallic after taste in the mouth, and so it’s best to choose from these wine styles:
- ‘Sticky’ Dessert wines such as Botrytis, Riesling or Semillon
- Fortified wines such as Muscat, Port, Tokay
- Aromatic whites such as Riesling, Sauvignon blanc
- Beer such as wheat beers (mild blues) or lagers (medium/strong blues)
