Learn These Wine Pairing Basics
JB Hook's is the number one restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks with an extensive wine list and delicious menu options. While all of our food and wines are delicious, pairing the right wine with your meal can make all the difference in how much you enjoy your meal. If you choose a wine that doesn't pair well with your meal, the tannins could interact with your food and give you an overall sour or bitter taste. Today, we're just dipping our toes into the basics wine pairings. Keep reading to find out what wine to order with your next dish at JB Hook's!
Dry White
Sauvignon Blanc
Pinot Grigio
Dry white wines tend to go best with fresh and roasted vegetables, starches, and fish. Order a dry white with JB Hook's Alaskan King Crab Legs, one and a half pounds of boiled Alaskan King Crab, served with drawn butter. Complete your meal with a fresh side salad and mashed or baked potatoes as a side.
Sweet White
Moscato
Riesling
Soft and hard cheeses, cured meats, and sweets go best with sweet whites like a Moscato or Riesling. Pair this wine with one of our deliciously cheesy happy hour appetizers or a dessert!
Rich White
Chardonnay
Rich white wine pairs perfectly with soft cheeses, starches, light and rich seafood, and white meat. JB Hook's has the perfect meal to pair with your chardonnay... The Stuffed Chicken Chardonnay. This dish is delicious chicken (white meat), stuffed with cream cheese (soft cheese) and crabmeat (seafood), then breaded, flash fried, and baked to a golden brown and topped with Chardonnay cream sauce.
Sparkling
Champagne
Prosecco
Soft cheese, hard cheese, vegetables, starches, and seafood go great with sparkling wines. Try pairing our Tuscan Scallop Pasta with one of our sparkling wines. This pasta dish is made with dayboat scallops (seafood) that are pan-seared with asparagus, peppers, tomatoes, and mushrooms (vegetables) in a pesto-cream sauce. Served over capellini pasta (starch). Delicious!
Light Red
Pinot Noir
Pair a light red with roasted vegetables, rich fish, white meat, or cured meat. If you go the rich fish route, try our Hook's Stuffed Lobster Tail for dinner. This dish is our signature one-pound Canadian Lobster tail stuffed with Alaskan King Crab, fresh herbs, and panko breadcrumbs. It's oven broiled and served with pan seared dayboat scallops and gulf shrimp in a classic scampi sauce.
Medium Red
Zinfandel
Merlot
Order a medium red wine with roasted vegetables, hard cheese, starches, white meat, red meat, cured meat. Enjoy with JB Hook's Osso Bucco... Made with pork shank that's slow-roasted, served over buttery garlic mashed potatoes, finished with sautéed mushrooms and a wine reduction.
Bold Red
Cabernet Sauvignon
Malbec
Syrah
A bold red wine is the perfect pairing for hard cheeses, starches, red meat, and cured meat. Order a bold red with our legendary 1881 Omaha Hereford Beef Filet Mignon, charbroiled and finished with Maitre d' Butter.
Dessert
Sherry
Port
This kind of wine speaks for itself! Dessert wines can be easily paired with sweets and also soft cheeses, starches, and cured meats.
Best Restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks
JB Hook's works hard to make sure you have a spectacular fine dining experience during your visit. If you're wondering which wine to pair with the meal you're ordering, just ask our staff! They will be more than happy to give you a great recommendation. If you're celebrating a special occasion, you can also let us know ahead of time and we can help you make it even more memorable. Give us a call to make a reservation! 573-365-3255
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