PAIRING WINE WITH TET TRADITIONAL FOOD: THE GUIDE TO A GREAT FESTIVE CELEBRATION

Lunar New Year is a time when families gather around with delicious traditional dishes. Nowadays, to enrich the joy of Tet celebrations, wine has gradually become popular as a flavor that creates a delicate combination of interference between cultures and cuisines. Let's explore with Red Apron the combination of wine and Tet food for the coming days:

1. Banh chung/ banh tet

Banh chung/ banh tet is a culinary feature in Vietnamese Tet, a skillful combination of sticky rice with a filling of green beans, pork belly and spices wrapped in dong leaves. so the characteristic flesh and greasy taste. When combining with wine, you can choose sweet wines to balance the flavor of banh chung.

At Red Apron, don't forget Emeri's Garden Moscato with the freshly crushed grapes aroma, a little musk and a hint of lime juice and flavor of freshly crushed grapes with just a squeeze of lemon & ginger on the finish will be one of the most suitable choices to enjoy with banh chung.

2. Gio lua

When talking about banh chung/ banh tet, it is indispensable to eat gio lua as a side dish. This is a popular dish skillfully prepared from pork combined with many spices. In addition, gio lua also means "full and happy".

With the traditional Vietnamese "sausage", Red Apron suggests to you an interesting combination with special Riesling lines from the famous Von Winning winery located in the town of Deidesheim in the Pfalz region of western Germany.

3. Thit kho

An unique dish which adorns the Tet cuisine, bringing hope for a prosperous and favorable new year, it is a perfect piece in Vietnamese Tet culinary culture. With rich flavor, soft, fatty meat, fragrant from coconut water and moderately sweet aftertaste, this will be the perfect combination dish with red wines made from Gamay grapes. Louis Jadot, Gamay, Bourgogne in Red Apron's Tet red wine collection will be the right choice for you.

4. Boiled chicken

A familiar and indispensable dish every Tet, and a bottle of Director's Cut, Chardonnay - the legacy of famous director Francis Ford Coppola will be a suggestion for an interesting combination with boiled chicken.

Above are delicious wine combinations for Tet that Red Apron wants to share with valued customers, hoping you can have the most suitable choices in the upcoming holidays.