What wine goes with your Mexican dish.
Search for a dish, a grape, a style or the label of a Mexican wine and turn the wheel. We tell you what is ideal, what goes well, what works and what is better avoided, and why. A model with rules you can read calculates the results, and we wrote the table of 36 dishes below ourselves, with no artificial intelligence. Ver en español
How to read the four levels
- Ideal. Everything adds up and nothing subtracts.
- Very good. Works with room to spare.
- Works. No clash, but no special reason in its favor.
- Best avoided. Something clashes or subtracts too much, so another choice is better.
The wheel scores each pairing from 0 to 100 with named rules, such as weight against weight, acidity against fat or tannin against heat, and says in one line what pulled it up or down. A clash always lands in Best avoided.
36 dishes, and the wines that go with them
- Mole poblanored, rosé
- Mole negrosparkling, red, rosé
- Mole verdewhite, rosé
- Cochinita pibilrosé, red, white
- Birriared, rosé
- Barbacoared, rosé
- Cabrito (roast kid goat)red
- Marinated pork legred, rosé
- Stuffed turkeyred, white, rosé
- Romeritosred, rosé, sparkling
- Bacalao a la vizcaína (Basque-style salt cod)rosé, white, red, sparkling
- Red pozolered, rosé
- White pozolewhite, sparkling
- Green pozolewhite, sparkling
- Green salsa tamaleswhite, sparkling
- Poblano strip and cheese tamaleswhite, sparkling
- Mole tamalesred, rosé
- Sweet tamalessparkling, sweet
- Tacos al pastorrosé, red
- Carnitas tacossparkling, white, red
- Fish tacoswhite, sparkling
- Green enchiladaswhite, rosé
- Chile rellenorosé, white
- Tinga tostadasrosé, red, sparkling
- Carne asadared
- Aguachilewhite, sparkling
- Cevichewhite, sparkling
- Zarandeado fishrosé, white, red
- Grilled octopusrosé, white
- Chiles en nogadasparkling, white, rosé
- Pan de muerto (Day of the Dead bread)sparkling, sweet
- Rosca de Reyes (Three Kings bread)sparkling, sweet
- Buñuelos with piloncillo syrupsweet, sparkling
- Chocolate dessertssweet
- Fresh cheeses (panela and Oaxaca)white, rosé, sparkling
- Aged cheeses (añejo and goat)red, white, sweet
More in the guide
The full guide, with a page for each dish, wine type and grape, is in Spanish: Maridajes (in Spanish). To find the wineries behind a wine, start with the wineries of Baja California.
Cities and Wines of Mexico is a guide for people 18 and older. Excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages is harmful to health.