Saturday Kitchen wine expert Olly Smith chose a Spinyback Pinot Gris 2007 white wine to go with the chef’s chicken dumpling Thai soup with noodles and Pak Choi.

The wine was chosen from Uckfield, and the New Zealand Spinyback was the perfect choice for its good low price. It’s from Nelson which is a bright and warm area of New Zealand, perfect for producing a ripe white wine. Pears and spices, and a syrupy texture make the Spinyback Pinot Gris a perfect accompaniment for the coconut milk dish. It also has a polished finish to complement the lime juice in the soup. Olly Smith said this wine would work well with a wide range of asian dishes.

You can buy a Spinyback Pinot Gris 2007 as seen on Saturday Kitchen from Wine Rack

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A French Syrah Grenache 2007 was chosen by Saturday Kitchen wine expert Susie Barrie to go with Stuart Gillies tuna dish. Susie chose a full-bodied red wine to go with the creaminess of the parsnips and the intensity of the red wine sauce. The Syrah Grenache 2007 has juicy blackberry fruit notes and mediterranean smell. There is also a hint of black pepper. Susie Barrie was in Andover to pick the wine for the Saturday Kitchen studio guests to enjoy, but you can buy a Syrah Grenache wine from any Marks & Spencer.

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A steak with watercress salad was the first meal cooked on today’s Saturday Kitchen Live. It had mixed reviews from the panel - Craig Revel Horwood was typically critical of the steak dish, saying that it was fibrous and required a lot of energy to eat. He gave the dish a 6 out of 10.

Saturday Kitchen wine expert Susy Atkins was dispatched to Stockport in Greater Manchester to pick the perfect wine for this beef dish. Susy said that with beef there’s a tendency to charge towards the most powerful, full bodied, stonking great red you can find. However, beef is a more delicate meat than roast lamb or even pork, and the fact that Mark’s recipe was actually a beef salad means that a more gentle wine is required.

Susy Atkins chose a soft ripe red with a fresh lift to the finish. An Italian red called De Forville Dolcetto D’Alba 2007 from Northern Italy.

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The Finest Gaston D’Orleans Vouvray 2007 white wine was chosen by Saturday Kitchen wine expert Tim Atkin to go with chef Diana Henry’s pork. Tim said the great thing about pork is that you can serve it with white wine or with red, it’s all about the other ingredients. The strongest flavour in Diana Henry’s dish according to Tim was the Roquefort cheese, which if on it’s own he would enjoy with a sweet dessert wine like the Botrytis Semillon from Australia. 

Saturday Kitchen’s Tim Atkin eventually plumped for the Tesco Finest Gaston D’Orleans Vouvray 2007. It comes from the Loire valley in Western France and is made from the chenin blanc grape variety. It has lovely characters of apple and honey, and Tim thought it would go perfectly with the pork cooked up in the Saturday Kitchen studio.  

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On this week’s Saturday Kitchen, Michelin-starred chef Mark Sargeant cooked a delicious and quick to prepare pan-fried salmon with a warm vinaigrette of potatoes, Morcambe Bay shrimps and capers.

Saturday Kitchen wine expert Susy Atkins was sent to Surbiton in Surrey to pick out a wine to match the food cooked in the Saturday Kitchen studio. Susy picked a 2007 Macon-Villages Chardonnay. Susy believed that a Chardonnay’s buttery roundness and fruitiness goes really well with salmon. Susy nearly went for an Australian Chardonnay but decided that Mark Sargeant’s warm vinaigrette dressing demanded a Chardonnay with more of a fresh lift and drier finish, and the Old World Burgundy Macon-Villages 2007 Chardonnay fits the bill perfectly.

The Macon-Villages Chardonnay 2007 as seen on Saturday Kitchen is available from Waitrose.

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Nick Nairn cooked a delicious Turbot with razor clam sauce vierge, and Saturday Kitchen wine expert Olly Smith recommended a peachy, polished white wine to go with this dish.

The white wine recommended is the Stamford Brook, Viognier 2007. It is available from Sainsburys priced at £5.99, you can buy this wine from the Sainsbury’s online groceries service by clicking here

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If you just watched Saturday Kitchen, you saw chef Gennaro Contaldo cook a fantastic ’steak with tomato sauce’, sirloin steak with cous cous, capers and anchovies in a sauce of garlic, tomatoes, peppers, onion and lemon juice.

The meal went down well with the panel, and the wine expert Olly Smith chose an bold, sassy, rich red wine from Sicily called Nero D’Avola, dubbed ‘The Godfather of Sicilian Wine’.

It’s also very good value - James Martin called it a ‘bargain’ and Gennaro said he would definitely snap up a case.

Nero D’Avola is available to buy from Tesco at £5.69 a bottle. Buy a case of this fantastic red wine by clicking here

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