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The Tasting Room
THE PERFECT MATCH
It’s common to pair wines with food, but creating dishes
to pair with wine is less common – and it produces
outstanding results from Tom Scade’s The Tasting Room
at The Vineyard in Berkshire. Dining here is an education,
with ‘lessons’ including pairings of heritage beetroot with
a glass of Simpsons English pinot noir rosé; Cornish turbot
with New Zealand pinot gris from Rockburn; and an
elegant floral Venetian soave by Ca’Rugate to go with
Dulcey blond chocolate with almond, jasmine and Amalfi
lemons. The matches are what you’d expect from a hotel
that has one of the country’s largest selection of wines,
and whose owner, Sir Peter Michael, has extensive vines in
California. Tom has been given the freedom to play with
our senses, and with that comes responsibility to execute it
well – which he does with aplomb.
Words by Gregor Rankin.
This review was taken from the August/September 2024 issue of Food and Travel. To subscribe today, click here.