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We brought four bottles to dinner. One worked, two surprised, one failed.
By Nick · · Updated
The conventional wisdom is to drink lager with Sichuan food and call it a night. We disagreed.
We brought four bottles to a working dinner at Sichuan Mountain House: a 2024 Sauvignon Blanc, a 2024 Chenin Blanc, a 2024 white blend, and a wild-card Chardonnay from the 2020 vintage.
The Sichuan peppercorn lit the wine up rather than fighting it.
If you take one thing from this: don't bring a wine that's trying to do too much. The food is already complicated.
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