Wet Season Snack Pairings To Tuck Into
Make the most of the wet season with a sumptuous spread of local monsoon grub paired with wines that were made to sing in the rains!
The monsoons have kicked into high gear and there’ll be plenty of days ahead when the rains might lock you in and wreak havoc with your routine in general. But it’s not bad all as the wet season brings with a hankering and perfectly legitimate excuse to go full binge mode on an absolutely delicious albeit questionably healthy comfort food spread that has de facto come to be associated with the monsoons. And it gets all the more better when you pair each one of them with the choicest of international wines that were made for the monsoon season. Let the good times pour. Cheers!
Vada Pav & Pakodas Paired With Man Family, Sauvignon Blanc, Warrelwind 2022
Vada Pav is the top of mind snack when it really starts to come down. These spicy deep fried potato balls stuffed inside the slit of white bread puff along with dry spicy chutney just call for sinking the teeth into delivering a nice punch of flavour. And don’t forget about them piping hot pakodas containing spicy batter and onions that are the stuff of Bollywood legend, mentioned with genuine longing in many a rainy day film scene. Both of these heart warming local snacks can be amped up with the acidic, easy drinking Man Family, Sauvignon Blanc, Warrelwind 2022, an acidic Sauvignon Blanc that softens the sharp spice and elevates the local snack with a rush of tropical fruits and herbs.
Momos with MadFish Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2021
You can gladden just about anyone with momos. These sumptuous steamed dumplings inspired by Tibetan cuisine (the name is derived from Tibetan lingo) are bite sized delights loaded with intense flavour. A whole platter of piping hot momos is just what the soul calls for on an incessantly rainy day. Be it mushroom, veggies, chicken or pork, everyone has their favourite momo and story to go with it. Momos delivers the senses to comfort food heaven and gets a further bump with the medium bodied MadFish Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2021, vinified in cult Western Australian region of Margaret River that absorbs and softens the indigenous dumpling’s taste and more than holds its fruit forward palate.
Roasted Bhutta (corn cob) With Susana Balbo, Crios, Rosé 2022
Corn cob isn’t an American thing. Your’s truly grew up roasted ‘bhutta’ through the 80’s when in fact it was only available street side during the rainy season. That restriction and the charm may have been sadly dispatched by its perennial presence these days but hell, it’s a still the best edible companion on a wet afternoon. Be sure give the toasted ‘bhutta’ a good rub of salt and red chilli laden chunk of lime before sinking the jaws into the scrumptious carbs and pair it with the crisp cool climate Susana Balbo, Crios, Rosé 2022, crafted in the misty hills of Argentina’s Mendoza region
