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What wine with a tagine?

Food and wine pairing · classic benchmarks: the preparation and your taste come first.

Preserved lemon, prunes, apricots, almonds: a tagine's sweet-savoury register calls for aromatic whites, or a generous rosé. With a fruit-free meat tagine, a supple southern red takes over.

White

Aromatic and rounded, it answers the sweet-savoury notes and gentle spices.

• Alsace Gewurztraminer
• Alsace Pinot Gris
• Condrieu

Rosé

Generous and fruity, it bridges vegetables, fruit and meat.

• Tavel
• Côtes de Provence

Red

With a lamb or beef tagine, a supple, sunny red.

• Côtes du Rhône
• Ventoux

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.

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