Who doesn’t like pizza? Do you want to make a perfect plan with the wine that goes best with pizza? Below are some key tips:
It is one of the more widespread dishes all over the world and offers an infinite number of variations and interpretations. It can be a simple dish but also a real delicacy.
An essential part of the pizza is the dough. There is fine, thick, spongy, with sour dough… Now you understand and we’ve only just mentioned the dough! Nevertheless, this essential ingredient provides us with the key for choosing some wines that are the ideal pairing.
White wines
White wines with a little ageing are perfect because they go very well with the notes of dough, yeast, baking over fire… If, in addition, our pizza has a generous amount of melted cheese or your favourite pizza is a four cheese pizza, a fatty topping, the acidity of the white wines works really well.
Our proposals which can be found in the Consum bodega:
- Pago de Tharsys fermented in a barrel, from a beautiful winery surrounded by 14 hectares of organic vineyards located in Requena, 70 km from Valencia, at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level. The winery dates back to 1808 and produces this fresh and balanced Chardonnay.
- Cuatro Rayas Barrica, a Verdejo from the D.O. Rueda, aged in barrels for six months, which is a great ally for those looking for direct whites.
So you like pizzas with ingredients from the sea? Mussels, salmon, some good anchovies, fresh and saline white wines will enhance the additions from the sea.
- Lolo Albariño, produced in Salnés, in the heart of the Rías Baixas, It is citrusy, with notes of white and stone fruits.
- Martin Códax, another classic albariño, with good acidity and vibrant. Ideal for enhancing flavours of the sea.
Rosé wines
Rosé wines are among the most popular when it comes to accompanying pizza, perhaps because they are associated with relaxed, informal meals. And although rosé wines can be as complex as any quality white or red, it is true that younger, fresher and fruitier rosés form a perfect tandem with simple pizzas, with cooked ham, mozzarella, mortadella… Who has not associated Lambrusco with pizza? Below are our suggestions:
- Lambrusco Bautista Marti Rosado, comes from Emilia Romagna, sightly frizzante and fruity, a perfect match for pizzas.
- Mateus Rosé, another classic among rosés, light, refreshing and versatile, It is a Portuguese wine that still today paints all corners of the planet with its rosé tone, in a bottle as emblematic as its taste.
- El Miracle, a Bobal rosé from Requena, with notes of violet and red fruits, sweet, perfumed, for lovers of rosé and pizza.
Red wines
Red wines are also a great option when we talk about heartier pizzas, stuffed pizzas, with barbecue sauce, with meat, pepperoni, mushrooms…
- Pruno, a Ribera del Duero with 12 months of ageing which clearly expresses its fruity side.
- Vermell (vermell, red in Valencian), produced with Garnacha Tintorera and Mandó in Moixent, D.O. Valencia. It will have matured in 2,600-litre earthenware jars, underground and buried, for 5 months. With this red wine, Celler del Roure, a leading winery in the recovery of forgotten native varieties from eastern Spain, also reflects the most ancestral winemaking methods.
In short, what type of wine goes with a pizza? Pizza offers you the possibility of pairing it with a wide variety of wines, enriching the experience at the table. When it comes to choosing which one, don't forget to take into account the ingredients of the pizza, the company and the moment.
