A delightfully simple and appetising antipasto dish, with the mushrooms' natural flavour accentuated by fresh herbs and garlic. Complement your mushrooomy fare with a crisp white, like sauvignon blanc.

The lamb shank is a truly satisfying feed. The glueyness and stickiness of the beans and shank meat with a tomato based sauce, finds a wonderful match with gutsy reds, especially cabernet sauvignon.  

This curry is delicious but like most curries can be a wine killer. Red wine works best especially fruity, rounder styles.

This Italian soup gets its name because it has a soothing almost medicinal quality - just the smell of the lentils cooking with the bay leaves is curative- and if you choose to take a medicinal glass of red wine, it goes well with that too.

Here’s a method of cooking chicken legs that is harder to ruin than it is to cook. Because of the flavours of pepper, garlic and the charring from the barbeque, this is chicken dish for red wine.

Fish cakes may have originated in Asia but find their gastronomical home with a glass of Clare Valley Riesling. 

Here’s a tasty fortifying salad that is a particularly good match for a rich white.  Serves 4