What wine goes well with pesto pasta

Do you like to cook real Italian recipes and pairing them with Italian wines? This is the right place to find information about what wine goes well with pesto pasta. Hi, I am Francesca Maisano, an Italian sommelier and in this article I propose some types of wine that are ideal for pairing. Pesto pasta or as we call it here “pasta al pesto” is milestone of typical Italian cuisine. My advice is to choose a young white wine, full of fragrances (possibly herbs), mineral, fresh and medium body. For convenience I add a link to a very good website of true Italian pesto pasta recipe. A suggestion that may come in handy: by clicking on the Pairing Italian Wine and Food tag at the bottom of the article, you will find many interesting ideas about Italian style eating and drinking.

What wine to pair with pesto pasta

Pesto pasta is a recipe from Liguria region (North West Italy). We usually pair wines from the same region of the recipe. So, in this case I suggest you two very good traditional wines as Pigato and Vermentino. You can also try Sauvignon from Friuli, Muller Thurgau from Trentino and Riesling from Lombardy.

Suggestions

For this dish of the Ligurian tradition you can use two excellent products of the territory: Basilico Genovese DOP and oil of the Ligurian Riviera. At the markets, there are ready-made pesto packages, but the aromas of the freshly hand-made pesto have no comparison. The recipe is simple, starting with the ingredients: only 7. Tradition requires the use of marble mortar and wooden pestle, but it’s fine to use a cooking blender too.

5 white wines of good cellars in Italy

Here are some examples of good wine pairing with pesto pasta. But you can try the same kind of wines from other cellars you find in your favourite wine shops.

• 1) Liguria – Pigato Riviera Ligure di Ponente della cantina Fontanacota (Pornassio – Imola)
• 2) Liguria – Vermentino Colli di Luni Il Bianco della cantina Il Torchio (Castelnuovo Magra – La Spezia)
• 3) Friuli – Sauvignon Friuli Grave della cantina Vigneti le Monde (Prata di Pordenone – Pordenone)
• 4) Trentino – Muller Thurgau San Lorenz della cantina Bellaveder (Faedo – Trento)
• 5) Lombardia – Riesling Oltrepo Pavese della cantina I Gessi (Oliva Gessi – Pavia)