5/29/2023 0 Comments Hummus mojar untar![]() Can you imagine wine and food matching on a picnic? Are you going to find a wine that goes perfectly with sausages, brie, and hummus? By the way, never mix brie with hummus, they do not get on. This doesn’t have to be a sommelier-level event – nor, really, can it be. You don’t want to be mucking about with a sharp knife and a chopping board when there’s kites to be flown. Fruit, garnishes and the like should all be pre-sliced. Make sure you do this securely or you’ll make yourself very unpopular when the bottle floats away or is stolen by a gang of marauding swans.Īs for drinking vessels, don’t take your best glasses: hardy paper cups are fine or if it has to be glass, Duralex tumblers are pretty unbreakable. If you’re picnicking by a river or pond, you can cool your wine the old-fashioned way by tying a piece of string around the neck, putting the bottle in the cold water and attaching the other end to a tree. On an overcast August day, a glass of room temperature merlot might be just the ticket. That’s assuming the sun is going to come out. On a hot day a chilled red is delicious and it will warm up very quickly. Chill your wines down as much as possible before heading out, including the reds. What else will you need? A portable cooler box is a good start, plus lots of ice, ice packs and a cooler jacket that fits over the wine bottle. ![]() Well, this need never happen again thanks to, largely, the Australians for taking the stigma out of screw caps. ![]() Once upon a time, you’d find a suitably quiet spot with just the right amount of shade, lay out the rug, unpack the picnic, take out the perfectly-chilled wine, and only then realise that nobody had brought the corkscrew. ![]()
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