There’s nothing quite like the moment when cheese and wine come together perfectly. Matching their styles and understanding their unique characteristics can elevate both, creating a truly enjoyable experience.
Pairing cheese and wine can be a challenge, especially with white wines. Red wines are often the more popular choice, but white wines deserve just as much attention. While a smooth, silky Old Vine Garnacha pairs beautifully with bold cheeses like Camembert or Gouda, there are also white wine pairings that should not be overlooked.
The rule for white wine & cheese
There are certain qualities in both cheese and wine that can contrast or complement one another. But we can make pairing really simple, all you need to remember is: acid needs salt and fat needs body. Salt in cheese can cut through acidity nicely, so saltier cheeses tend to pair with leaner white wines. Meanwhile fat and tannin complement one another well, so fattier cheeses are a good pick with red wines. So some good go -to's for this are Manchego, Comté or Gruyére.
There is only one thing our wine buyer knows better than wine, and that is a good cheese pairing. Below is a collection of some of the best white wine & cheese pairings for our wines that you should definitely check out.
Grüner Veltliner
Our Gruner Veltliner showcases Austria’s star grape variety in all its glory – super fresh and citrussy with an herbaceous complexity and notes of peaches and green apple. Grüner has a lovely piercing acidity which means it needs the saltier cheese to complement is characterisitcs. Pair it with Tomme de Savoie or Winslade which is often described as a cross between Vacherin and Camembert, it’s gooey and ripe with notes of floral pine.
Verdejo
Most cheese has a good bit of salt and creamy, delicious fats that go so well with ripe, fresh white wines like Verdejo. My picks of the punch would be the semi-soft and tangy Tomme de Savoie, salty Somerset Pecorino and the gooey and herby Taleggio, You could also seek out Manchego as an alternative.
Viognier
When it comes to cheese, Viognier is your friend! For best pairings try Comte, Brie de Meux, fondue, farmer’s cheese and young sheep’s milk cheeses. Viognier has a beautifully ripe nature with it's fruited characteristics of tangerine and a bitter citrus rind on the finish.
Have fun pairing at your next cheeseboard night!
