Wine enemies

Colloquial term for dishes, spices and fruit that require particularly careful selection of the matching wine or that do not go well with wine at all due to flavour disharmonies. These include above all dishes or ingredients with a high acid content, or which are very strongly flavoured, fatty and/or oily. In such cases, a wine, no matter how good, may not come into its own or may even be disappointing.

Weinfeinde - Chili (Peperoni), Ölsardinen, Eierspeise, Orangen, Salat (Essig)

These include pineapple, artichokes, chicory, chilli peppers, curry, egg dishes, ice cream, vinegar, fruit sorbets, herring, blackcurrants, mayonnaise, oil sardines, oranges, cranberries, salty dishes, sour salads, chocolate, spinach and citrus fruits. In contrast, there are dishes that can be combined very well with a suitable wine. See under wine lovers and wine with food as well as pests and diseases in the vineyard under vine enemies.

Chilli: from Hans on Pixabay
Sardines: by chen YUNYU on Pixabay
Egg dish: by Reinhard Thrainer on Pixabay
Oranges: from S. Hermann & F. Richter on Pixabay
Salad: picture by Rita on Pixabay

Voices of our members

The Wine lexicon helps me to keep up to date and refresh my knowledge. Thank you for this Lexicon that will never end in terms of topicality! That's what makes it so exciting to come back often.
Thorsten Rahn
Restaurantleiter, Sommelier, Weindozent und Autor; Dresden

Welcome back!

Wine enemies

Voices of our members

The world's largest Lexicon of wine terms.

EVENTS NEAR YOU