Adam Liaw has fond memories of eating Cheong Liew’s dishes as a child. They reunite and Cheong shares his latest signature dish with Adam.Wine match Ten Minutes by Tractor 10X Pinot Gris 2011, Mornington Peninsula, Vic
This is quite a delicately spiced dish, but also quite an intensely flavoured one thanks to the cooking methods. This should set you looking for a similarly built wine, something with a bit of body and a dash of spice. You’ll find that pinot gris can play the supporting part very well, but you do need to find the right one. It’s distinctly different in style to the leaner, crisper, more citrus-driven pinot grigio. Same grape, different origins and occasionally confusing when the label description doesn’t match your expectations. This Mornington beauty avoids sweet and flabby, and, instead, ploughs through tree and stone fruit, spice, some floral notes and a textured palate with just enough cleansing acidity on the finish.
-Dan Coward