What wine with salmon?
Food and wine pairing · classic benchmarks: the preparation and your taste come first.
Raw, smoked, grilled or in a cream sauce: salmon is an oily fish that can take fuller whites than lean fish. Taut with smoked salmon, rounder with salmon in a sauce.
White
Riesling or Chablis with smoked and raw salmon; Meursault with salmon in cream sauce.
Sparkling
With smoked salmon as an appetiser, bubbles are unbeatable.
How to use these pairings
A good pairing balances the dish and the wine: neither should dominate. The suggestions above are proven classics for the category, not rules: the preparation, the sauce and your taste matter more. When in doubt, the regional pairing (the wine from the dish's homeland) rarely fails.
What about your cellar?
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