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Pick a wine style. Decant tells you what to cook, and where the wine's from.
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What kind of wine is it?
No label to scan needed — just pick the style closest to your bottle.
Decant helps you decide what to cook when you already have a bottle of wine. Most pairing guides start with a dish and suggest a wine. Decant works the other way: you choose the style of wine you have, and it suggests five dishes that go well with it, each with a full recipe.
Step 1: choose a wine style. You do not need to scan a label or type a wine name. Choose the style that is closest to your bottle: light red, full-bodied red, dry white, rich white, dry rosé, or sparkling. Each style has a short explanation of how it tastes and where it comes from.
Step 2: tell Decant what you already have. This step is optional. Tap the ingredients that are already in your kitchen, and Decant will take them into account.
Step 3: pick a dish. Decant shows five dishes. Each one has a list of ingredients, a step-by-step method, and an estimate of the nutrition per serving. Any ingredient you are missing can be added to a shopping list, which you can copy or share.
Three properties of a wine matter most for pairing: its acidity, its tannin, and its body. Acidity is the sharp, fresh taste in a wine. Tannin is the drying feeling on your gums that you notice in many red wines. Body is how heavy the wine feels in your mouth.
Acidity balances oil and salt, so dry white wines and sparkling wines work well with seafood and fried food. Tannin feels softer when it is combined with fat and protein, so full-bodied red wines work well with meat. Body should be similar in the wine and the dish: a light wine can be overpowered by a rich cream sauce, while a rich white wine can support it.
Light red (for example Pinot Noir, Gamay, Barbera) has low tannin and fresh acidity, and is best served slightly cool. Full-bodied red (for example Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo, Syrah, Malbec) has high tannin and a heavy body. Dry white (for example Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Chablis) has high acidity and no sweetness. Rich white (for example oaked Chardonnay, Viognier, white Rioja) has a fuller body from oak barrels and slower fermentation. Dry rosé is similar to a light red that had very little contact with the grape skins, and is served cold. Sparkling (for example Champagne, Cava, Prosecco) combines bubbles with high acidity.
Decant also includes a guide to 26 wine regions around the world, grouped by wine style. For each region you can read what the wine is like, when to visit, and how to cook a matching dish at home if you cannot travel there.
Everything the app knows is also written out in full on separate pages: a guide for each of the six wine styles with five complete recipes, an explanation of how pairing works, a ranking of all 30 recipes by cooking time, and a guide to the 26 wine regions.
Decant is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use this site. Please drink in moderation, and do not drink if you are going to drive.
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Where it's from
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What do you already have?
Tap anything you already have on hand. Optional — the rest goes on your shopping list automatically.
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5 dishes to consider
Tap one for the full recipe.
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Nutrition, per serving (estimate)
Ingredients
Method
Shopping list
Wine regions worth visiting
26 destinations, grouped by wine style — where the wine and the trip are both worth it.