- Season 4 Trailer
- Wine 4 Green Pizza
- Inside the Fort Knox of Wine
- Wine 4 Spag Bol
- English Wine and Climate Change
- Wine 4 Fish Pie
- Our WINE(S) OF THE YEAR 2022!
- Wine 4 the ULTIMATE burger
- Selling Net Zero Wine
- The Wine Lover’s Wish List
- How To Be a Better Wine Lover
- Burgundy – The Tipping Point?
- The New Beaujolais
- Wine and Your Microbiome
- Australian Pinot Noir Comes of Age
- The End of the Hangover?
- New Zealand Chardonnay
- News & Views 1
- Santorini – Wine’s Jurassic Park
- Santorini – Wines to Save an Island
- How Wine Gets Rocks Wrong
- Portugal’s Fine Wines
- The Mystery of Minerality
- Germany’s Pulling Power
- The Microbial Face of Terroir
- LIVE Q&A (Winchester)
Video
Summary
It’s a mid-week classic. But the BIG question is: what wines work best to make your spaghetti bolognese taste like MAGIC?!
We tackle this weighty issue like the true gannets we are, featuring some delicious Italian reds (Montepulciano + Valpolicella Ripasso) as well as more quirky pairings, from a South African Syrah to a Chilean Pais.
All the while talking through WHY things work as much as the specific wines themselves. (Oh, and there’s mention of Pinky and Perky too – listen to find out more…)
Pairing wines with everyday dishes is really fun. Have a go yourself! Let us know what weird and wonderful discoveries you make.
Wines
This episode is brought to you in association with Wine Club by Majestic – a service where you subscribe to receive a different case of wine four times a year. What’s more, when you sign up you get the value of your first case back in money-off vouchers to spend in Majestic stores or online – plus a magazine that not only explains the wines but also gives you delicious recipes to match.
- Masciarelli Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2019, Italy, 13.5% (from £9.99)
- Villa Borghetti Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore 2020, Italy, 13.5% (from £10.99)
- Radford Dale Antithesis Syrah 2017, Stellenbosch, 13.5% (from £18.99 or in the £199 Wine Club by Majestic Grand Tour case)
- Spier Field and Flutter Cinsault 2021, Swartland, 13.5% (from £9.99 or in the £99 Wine Club by Majestic Discovery case)
- Morandé One to One Pais 2019, Maule, 13% (from £7.99)
The wines are available from Majestic – or exclusively through the Wine Club, as per the notes.
Prices are either for the whole case (for the Wine Club) or the mix-six price at Majestic. NB: Wine Club wines are available seasonally so will change in time (the current region at the time of publication is South Africa).
Recipe
Everyone has their own favourite bolognese recipe and this just happens to be ours. We love it because it’s simple and makes a nice tasty version of bolognese that seems to suit the whole family.
Download our spaghetti bolognese recipe
