Choosing the tastiest wine for your takeaway meal

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the foodies of the online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: the best wine to choose with your takeaway snack.

There are those days when you don't feel like cooking. Then the Chinese or snack bar around the corner offers a solution. But that doesn't mean you automatically drink a pint of beer or a soda with it. Because wine with a greasy snack? It’s possible!

A greasy snack with a glass of wine?!
Isn't that blasphemy? No, it really is possible to find suitable wines for fries, croquettes or frikandel. But if your snack is spicy, fatty and/or salty, it’s handy to know which wines pair well with snacks.

Handy guidelines
There are two simple guidelines. If you choose white, you should take a type with a fresh taste as a counterbalance. Fresh wines are the tastiest with fried snacks. A glass of Sauvignon Blanc goes well with fries. Even better: champagne! The acidity of the champagne cuts nicely through the saltiness and fat content. If you prefer red, then choose neither a complex nor a refined wine. So no full Bordeaux or other wine with a lot of tannins. Snacks are salty, which makes such a type of wine taste rougher. But a little oak aging is fine. There is only one fatty food-wine disaster: bar nuts.

13 x ordering and drinking

If you order a satay
then drink a Chardonnay

If you order a sweet and sour chicken from the Chinese
then drink a Gewürztraminer

If you order a wonton soup
then drink a Rosé or Champagne

If you order a Thai creamy curry
then drink a Chardonnay

If you order a Thai fish with coriander, ginger and basil
then drink a Sauvignon Blanc

If you order a Mexican burrito
then drink a Merlot or Beaujolais

If you order a BBR (Surinamese brown beans with rice)
then drink a Champagne

If you order a Indian Masala
then drink a Merlot

If you order a Indian Tandoori
then drink a Gewürztraminer

If you order a fries
then drink a Sauvignon Blanc (or keep it broad and go for a Champagne)

If you order a veal croquette
then drink a oak-aged Chardonnay

If you order a beef croquette
then drink a lightly chilled red wine, a Bardolino, or a Beaujolais Villages

If you order a hamburger
then drink a (Australian) Shiraz