If you are planning on hosting a New Year’s Eve dinner and party, you will need to choose the perfect menu and beverages to pair with the food you intend on serving. Champagne and food pairing is much like any other type of wine and food pairing. It’s important to make sure that the two complement one another without one flavour overpowering the other.

Champagne and food pairing ideas

When serving champagne, you can give your guests a number of sweet and savoury options. Triple cream cheese or mascarpone cheese with sweet bread is a delicious treat. Shrimp, shellfish, oysters and fried calamari are perfect to pair with champagne. Stuffed mushrooms, egg dishes and various veggies are also lovely with these bottles of bubbly. As for sweet treats, you could serve shortbread biscuits or fruit-based desserts.

Rosé sparkling wine pairings

These sparkling wines are not usually sweet in flavour but they are perfect for pairing with sweet foods. Consider serving brie and prosciutto, smoked salmon or even chocolate and raspberries with this lovely champagne alternative.

Spanish Cava

This type of bubbly is fast becoming a top competitor when compared to authentic champagne. You can pair your bottle of Cava with various foods including tapas, sushi, smoked salmon, fried fish, prosciutto or serrano ham.

Prosecco

Prosecco is one of the top types of bubbly produced in Italy and this is mainly due to the lovely flavour and affordability. Consider serving along with smoked salmon, sushi, shrimp cocktail or almonds.

If you ever feel confused about champagne, sparkling wine and the best food pairings, keep these ideas in mind. Remember, while some enjoy serving bubbly just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, others enjoy drinking it all night long. No matter what, you should at least have sweet treats or appetizers to complement the bottle or bottles that you have chosen.