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The Waitrose Easter Experience - Pairing Guide

Waitrose Easter 2025

Now with the bank holiday stretch on the horizon, Easter should be firmly in your sights. Not only is it the next holiday, but it’s also your excuse to crack open good wine and share it with the family. Oh, and a rather good chance to gorge on some chocolate. I’ll of course be focused on the vino at Waitrose that I recommend for your Easter feasts, but don’t overlook their exciting Easter eggs either!


Have a look below at my picks for your wine pairings from Waitrose. They have an excellent selection of wine (probably the best) and often some very tempting offers. Use my choices as inspiration if you like to guide you along the style of wines you might want to think about. However, as I have always said in previous articles, choosing a wine to match food is not the be all and end all, choose a wine you like on its own first and foremost. After all, you are unlilkely to spend so long eating that you have time to drink an entire bottle!

Waitrose Easter Offers

Easter Sparkling Wines

Squerryes Vintage Reserve Brut

Not living too far from Squerryes, and having eaten at their restaurant a few times, I was always going to recommend this. With fruit from the North Downs, this captures cool climate sparkling in brilliant light. Refreshing, zesty and floral notes give way to brioche and leesy flavours creating a pleasing, lingering finish. This is a great choice to celebrate Easter with a bit of homegrown goodness.

Squerryes Vintage Reserve Brut

Valdo Elevantum Prosecco DOCG

Probably the most popular Prosecco at Waitrose, Valdo Elevantum is a cut above the majority of mass produced plonky Prosecco on the market, and the price is very agreeable for the quality too. The palate has plenty of fruit such as ripe apple, lemon and pear which is given complexity by a floral uplift and undercurrent of honey. Almost dangerously easy drinking!

Valdo Elevantum Prosecco DOCG

Easter Lamb Wine Pairing

Jip Jip Rocks Shiraz

Wine often develops around the local cuisine which is why Aussie Shiraz is such a match for BBQs and red meats. Jip Jip displays vibrant red fruits that mellow towards savoury notes like mocha and liquorice. A little spice on the end caps it off nicely. The palate is weighty and has well-integrated tannins too meaning that it has the flavour and body to stand up to roast lamb.

Jip Jip Rocks Shiraz

Faustino I Rioja Gran Reserva

Rioja is a pretty traditional wine for matching with both lamb and special occasions, so why not go all out with a well-priced Gran Reserva? Faustino I blends the three traditional Rioja varieties together in brilliant harmony. Expect heady tannin, intense red fruit, sweet spices, vanilla, cinnamon and cocoa. It has the ideal structure to complement lamb and is easily good enough to impress the most discerning drinker.

Faustino I Rioja Gran Reserva

Chicken/Poultry Wine Pairing

Grant Burge Chardonnay

Grant Burge is one of the legendary names of Australia’s Barossa Valley and it’s well worth getting stuck into their range if you enjoy wines from this region. Barossa is in their DNA. Check all their wines out here. This particular Chardonnay shows tropical pineapple, melon, mango and peach flavours, alongside New World butter and toast from oak use. It’s perfectly suited to a creamy chicken dish.

Grant Burge Chardonnay


Johann Wolf Pinot Noir

Did you know that German Pinot Noir was so good? Well, it really is and with a name like Dr Loosen behind the making of this, you ought to think twice before you discount it. A supple, fresh and lively wine with bright red fruit. Light enough in body not to overpower white meat, but with enough flavour to complement your dish.

Johann Wolf Pinot Noir

Vegetarian Wine Pairing

Villa Maria Private Bin Riesling

There’s no reason the vegetarian’s should miss out on good wine (as well as good food *winky face*) so rather than a boring neutral white, choose something a little different that will match to lighter dishes. The Villa Maria Riesling is aromatic with honeysuckle and lime character abounding. It’ll work with spicy or sweet dishes and taste delicious on its own too.

Villa Maria Private Bin Riesling

Tiki Ridge Sauvignon Blanc Reserve

Sauvignon Blanc is always good with greens, sharing a few different flavour profiles with the veggie category. This is from the cooler region of Marlborough, Awatere, meaning it is less tropical than the usual style. Expect gooseberries, lime and green pepper.

Tiki Ridge Sauvignon Blanc Reserve

David Andrews, DipWSET

David Andrews, DipWSET

David brings great enthusiasm to the wine industry, starting with Majestic Wine in 2019 and now joining us at Winesdirect in 2023. He has completed his WSET Diploma qualification and looking forward to share his expert knowledge and tidbits of the wine world.

As an industry enthusiast and expert, David also writes a regular blog on instagram. Check it out here @oinosattheoikos

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