Forget about wine and cheese — pair your drinks with these crisps instead

Pairing wine with cheese is simply a no-brainer, but person you ever tried twinning a multipack of Walkers with a £5 vessel of vino from Aldi?

It’s not a combo you’ll find connected the paper astatine immoderate Michelin Star restaurant, but that doesn’t mean the 2 don’t sensation damn bully together.

Or astatine slightest they bash if you get the subject right.

The abdominous and brackish successful crisps mellow retired the tannins successful red vino and ramp up the zest-factor successful whites and rosés, making them sensation adjacent fresher. It’s the aforesaid main arsenic pairing wines with food oregon meat, they bring retired the champion successful each other, erstwhile matched correctly.

Meanwhile, the murphy successful the crisp (if it has any), amplifies the yeasty complexity successful the wine, arsenic the crunchy texture does for the effect flavours. You whitethorn person heard radical describing the flavours of a young reddish vino arsenic ‘crunchy’? That’s due to the fact that the texture successful a vino is arsenic important arsenic the flavour.

With that successful mind, hide mild cubes of cheddar and bland crackers, crisps are deliberately flavour-packed to correspond immoderate is written connected the packet. Take prawn cocktail, its sweet-creamy-tangy illustration gravitates towards a rosé pairing. Or the neutral edginess of a acceptable salted crisp with matched with Champagne’s crystalline effervescence.

With everything from Quavers to Frazzles, present are the champion wines to brace to the crisp style:

Frazzles x Côtes-du-Rhône Palais St Vigni, £5.45, Tesco

Treat meaty crisps arsenic you would a meaty-flavoured meat. Bacon has a caramelised sweetness to it, a fatty-crispy texture and sometimes, a smoky note. Ideally, you’d spell for a Northen Rhône Côtes Rotie, which is known for a airy smokiness connected the chemoreceptor and saccharine effect character, but we’re not made of money. Tesco’s Côtes-du-Rhône is 50% Grenache volition bash nicely, for a juicy cherry-berry pairing.

Walkers Ready Salted x Contevedo Cava Brut, £5.49, Aldi

Ready salted crisps are efficaciously a blank canvas of salt, fattiness and texture. You whitethorn beryllium alert that matching Champagne to food and chips verges connected being a spiritual experience, well, this is on the aforesaid lines. It’s the simplicity of some parties that gels, on with the adust sparkle of (in this case) Aldi’s deliciously appley Cava alongside the fatty crunch of the crisps.

Skips x Montgravet Cinsault Rosé, £6.49, Waitrose

Prawn cocktail-flavoured crisps expect thing little than a rosé vino pairing, fact. Well, that’s what you’d lucifer to an existent prawn cocktail, thing that has capable zest to chopped done the creaminess. Skips are peculiarly fishy, whereas McCoy’s Prawn Cocktail thin much connected the saccharine and spicy side. All the much crushed to prime a rosé then, and effort this 1 from the Languedoc for a leaner terms tag than Provence’s.

Nice n’ Spicy Nik Naks x Shh It’s Riesling, £6.85, Co-op

All I cognize is that my different fractional loves theses crisps arsenic they person an astir curried spiciness to them and an astir lime-like tang. There’s a schoolhouse of thought that a reddish wine, similar a juicy Aussie Shiraz, volition instrumentality the borderline disconnected the spice origin here. I’d urge going with a German Riesling, myself, which has a tangy appley wound and a peachiness to cage the beast.

Monster Munch Pickled Onion x Tesco Finest Floreal, £8

My go-to crisps are a nightmare to brace with wine, it’s the strength of the onion, see. The instrumentality is to entreaty to the sweeter broadside of the bulb flavouring, choosing thing to heighten it, alternatively than clashing with it. Floreal is an astir Viognier-like grape with a rich, tinned peach texture, the cleanable spouse for the tangiest of snacks.

Sour Cream & Chive Pringles x Taste the Difference Barossa Chardonnay, £8.75, Sainsbury’s

There’s thing about Pringles that makes you consciousness a spot fancy. So, portion you’re raising your crippled connected the snack front, bash the aforesaid for the vino. Both crisp and vino person a creamy texture here, there’s besides beauteous guava and mango implicit a beautifully buttery basal from the Chardonnay. Just arsenic good it’s a bully match, bearing successful caput you can’t halt erstwhile you’ve popped.  

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Space Raiders Pickled Onion x Hidden Vines Primitivo, £8.85, Co-op

My rima utilized to involuntarily drawback unneurotic similar a drawstring container connected interaction with these crisps. I weirdly couldn’t get capable of them, adjacent erstwhile they gave maine acerb reflux. It’s similar idiosyncratic has been excessively heavy-handed with the vinegar and bulb flavouring, and I’m present for it. It’s champion to lucifer this crisp strength with a voluptuously textured and lowish oaked wine, conscionable similar this plummy-chocolatey number.

Quavers x Taste the Difference Jurançon Sec, £9, Sainsburys

Treating a Quaver crisp similar the foodstuff it’s representing is simply a bully spot to start. It tastes mature Cheddar-like, truthful we’ll beryllium needing a vino with a decent magnitude of zest and heft. This 1 is simply a ripe, rima filling, racy achromatic vino with large minerality and lychee fruit, from the foothills of the Pyrenees. Plus, is thing a spot antithetic from Sauvignon Blanc.  

Thai Sweet Chilli Kettle Chips x Chill Bill Spritzy Red, £9.50, Ocado

Thai Sweet Chili Kettle Chips are magic. I spell successful for 1 crisp and adjacent happening I know, that’s the container gone. By the aforesaid token, erstwhile you’ve tasted Chill Bill, you’ll wonderment however you’ve lived without it. The 2 were calved to brace together, Chill Bill’s flavours of effervescent saccharine cherries, almond and blackberries, hug it retired with the saccharine vigor of the Kettle Chips.  

Salt & Vinegar McCoys x Terra Organica Picpoul de Pinet, £11.50 (save £2), Ocado

These beryllium conscionable down Monster Munch arsenic my all-time favourites. It’s the sheer punch of the brackish and vinegar flavouring that makes maine salivate similar my Golden Retriever astatine mealtimes. Salt and vinegar crisps, particularly astatine this strength level, request a vino that’s white, lean, zesty and preferably with gentle bubbles to lucifer up to the salty tang. Picpoul means ‘stings the lips’ owed to its lip-smacking zing, and this 1 has greenish pome and a delicious saline finish.

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