Every dish has its ideal wine, the optimal companion able to enhance its taste without overwhelming nor suffocating it. The combination of wine and food is, therefore, essential to create that perfect balance between scents and flavours that is able to delight every palate. Let's find out together which wine to pair with chicken meat to create a triumph of flavours and make our recipes even more special.
Meat and wine: two myths to debunk
Before discovering which wines to pair with chicken meat, let's start immediately by debunking two great myths linked to the combination of meat and wine:
- cooking has no influence on the choice of wine: this not true! The type of cooking is a paramount aspect in the choice of wine. The more complex the cooking is, the more structured the wine must be. A delicate wine for delicate recipes
- with meat you always need red wine: this is not always true! For more delicate meats, such as chicken for example, choosing red wine is not the best solution.
A delicate wine for delicate recipes
Chicken meat is characterised by a delicate, minimally invasive flavour, which goes perfectly with a wine with an equally delicate taste. If we take for example simple preparations, such as chicken curry, the right choice is a fruity and light white wine.
A more daring wine for more structured recipes
If, instead, you opt for more elaborate preparations and recipes, white meat becomes tastier and so you can dare to pair it with more daring-tasting wines, choosing, for example, a rosé or a crystal-clear red wine. Indeed, these two types of wine, although more full-bodied respect to white wines, are not strong enough to cover the flavours of the chicken recipe, but manage to go with them in excellently.
What wine to pair with roasted chicken
If we dwell on one of the most traditional chicken recipes, that is its roasted variant, two are the wines that are able, better than others, to go with it. The first is the Chianti wine, with its dry and velvety taste, which is able to go with roasted chicken with elegance and delicacy. The second wine, perfect to pair with roasted chicken, is the Moscato doc characterised by a fine and light flavour and a clear, sparkling colour.
At this point there is only one thing left for us to do: raise our glasses and toast to many tasty chicken-based dishes.
