What wine goes with a maple flavored salmon dish?

I am cooking dinner this weekend for my parents and want to get a nice wine to go with the meal. We will be having a spinach salad with a french dressing and mandarin oranges, maple teriyaki flavored salmon, and a noodle rice pilaf side dish. What kind of wine would go well with all of this? I'm not looking to spend a great deal on a bottle, as only 2/4 people will be drinking it. Also, I can even go witht he idea of a dessert wine as well. Looking for advice on whether I need red or white, etc. Then I can look into a particular brand. Thanks in advance.|||The sweetness of the maple teriyaki on the salmon suggests that a sweeter white wine would pair best. Otherwise, if you go with a dry white wine, the sweetness will make the wine seem too tart and dry.





When I think of a food friendly off-dry white, the first thing that comes to mind is a German riesling. Even the driest ones have residual sugar.





For a not too expensive bottling, try any Kabinett or Spatlese. My favourite best bang for the buck is the Selbach Spatlese which usually costs about $16 a bottle and has excellent balance of fruit, sugar and acidity, while being low in alcohol.





Even cheaper and also very good is the Loosen Bros. "Dr. L" riesling, also from Germany. It will come in around $10 a bottle and is a perennial good value wine in Wine Spectator magazine. The 2005 scored 88 points.





If you want to stick with a North American product, Ernst Loosen and the Washington winery Chateau Ste. Michelle produce a riesling called "Eroica" which is stunning every year, but will cost you $25 or more.





I hope that helps! Cheers!|||A pinot noir for a red wine or a chardonnay for a white wine.|||White wine with any type of fish or poultry. I would recommend a chardonnay, it sounds like the salmon may have a sweet side to it, therefore white wine would be your best bet!|||Hi..





A nice White Wine is good, especially with colorful veggies and poultry. I'd serve both red and white so your friends may choose their own flavour. Try to keep the red a medium-dry and a low sweetness on white; the maple in the salmon is enough.





You may try Red though, if there is some type of red meat with it.





I suggest for wine choices, Turning Leaf (white), and Yellow, Red, Green, Black or Brown Labels for red (Australian). Dessert wine, an ice wine is "always" nice - costly though - and try Inniskillin





Enjoy!|||I would go with something like "Conundrum". A white blend that is multi-layered and complex and will cut the oilyness of the fish and the sweetness of the maple.|||usually a white wine with fish.|||NOT CHARDONNAY unless it is a crisp, acidic one, such as a French Chablis or a chardonnay from New York or from the Italian Alto Adiage.





You need something to enhance the maple with salmon with teriyake.





I'd say this is one of the few recipes that calls for a clean tasting, moderately assertive gewurztraminer.





If you live in the States and in a State that has licensed Trader Joe's stores you are in luck: TJ's now sells an inexpensive gewurztraminer of the style I describe under its "3 Buck Moe"


(J.W. Morris) label which I just tried for the first time about a month ago. In fact one of the foods I tasted it with was a Quebec


made maple smoked salmon!





If you cannot find a gewurztraminer of the sort try an Austrian gruner veltlinger.





Bon appetit.|||Mmmm, sounds delish.





Because salmon is richer than other fish, I like to serve it with a red wine - a good pinot noir or shiraz would be very tasty.|||Amuse Bouche's suggestions were excellent.


The only one I would add is perhaps a sparkling wine with a touch of sweetness. A prosecco from Italy is very nice.





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BARTOLOMEO DA BREGANZE - PROSECCO EXTRA DRY|||A Chardonnay would be good. It is not necessary to follow the old rule of white with fish %26amp; poultry, red with meats anymore. This is a generation of whatever you like, you serve. The chardonay is a white with a not sweet but not too dry that goes well with what you are cookin. Look for Barefoot chardonnay if you can find it. It is very inexpensive, but quite good. If you want a more expensive wine, you cannot beat Poulle Fuisse. It goes about $25 a bottle but is wonderful! Have fun!