The taste of metal
Beer or Bourbon might seem like the most obvious partners for heavy metal, but there’s a growing wine and metal scene that suggests some surprising synergies.
One of the most entertaining wine and music experiences of my year to date was last month when I witnessed lead singer, Daif of metal band Stalker, skull the wine I’d matched to his music from the bottle onstage. I was at Superwild, where I’d been given the initially daunting task of selecting some of the natural wines featured at the festival with the metal bands on the evening bill. In a swirl of distorted guitar riffs and fresh carbonic Syrah, I realised metal and wine were not mutually exclusive.