Fino sherry

Flor-aged salinity and dry acid; the classic Andalusian rinse for cured fat.

Flor yeast against lanolin. The dry sherry strips fat, leaves the nuttiness.

Vin jaune's stand-in. Flor oxidation meets the same nutty aldehydes.

Flor yeast and toasted almond are the same smell. The wine was made for the plate.

Brine plus brine. The wine has no sugar to get in the way of the salt.

Blistered green pepper and flor nuttiness; the roulette pepper gets a fire blanket.

Fermented fish umami finds the yeast umami and stops tasting like fish.

Sweet shellfish against bone-dry salt; the wine works as a squeeze of lemon.

Flor salinity is the seasoning and the acid at once. Chill both hard.

Flor salinity strips the sweetness back so you taste the char.

Flor salt against sea salt. The wine tastes of the same water.

Flor salinity mirrors the brine and dries the butter off your tongue.

Flor salinity is the closest a wine ever gets to being seawater.

Stands in for vin jaune: oxidised, nutty, flor-aged. Same job.

Salt on salt only works because there is no residual sugar anywhere.

Flor yeast and berry furanone: both smell faintly of bread and neither is sweet.

Flor salinity and pith bitterness; the fruit sugar is the only softness in the pairing.

Salt-flor acidity does the seasoning; a melon this plain needs somebody bossy.

Flor yeast and glandular creaminess share a bready, saline register.

Flor yeast and blue mould share amino breakdown. Drier than port, and better.

Salt, yeast and bitterness with no sugar between them. A very dry pairing.

Flor yeast and green oil share an almond note, with salt sitting between.

Cynarin destroys most wine. Bone-dry and saline is the one survivor.

Iodine roe and salt-marsh wine; both taste of the same stretch of coast.

Manzanilla is named for the flower. Flor throws the same hay-and-apple note.

Flor yeast and almond skin against stone fruit. Salt in the glass, sugar on the plate.

Flor and salt against fresh sugar; the wine tastes of the grape it stopped being.

Almond and flor bitterness. The glass and the kernel meet on exactly one note.

Flor salt and yeast against sweet flour. The gap between them is the point.

Two yeast-driven umami bombs. Fino is basically dashi that got fermented.