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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Fiona Beckett

Is there any wine that goes with asparagus?

Fresh asparagus with young boiled potatoes, fried egg and glass of white wine. A delicious summer vegetarian meal: fresh asparagus with young boiled potatoes, fried egg and glass of white wine
How you cook your asparagus will dictate what kind of wine you drink with it. Photograph: chrupka/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Four weeks or so into the asparagus season, and are you getting bored yet? Not me: at this time of year, I could happily eat the stuff every day, and frequently do, but not always cooked the same way. And how you cook or serve your asparagus will affect which wine you drink with it.

What’s that, you say – you thought wine was supposed to be a no-no with asparagus? Like most of these so-called rules, the difficulties are massively overstated. Do you think the Germans or Austrians, mad asparagus fiends that they are, don’t drink wine with their spargel? Of course they do. In Alsace, too.

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