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Fig + Red wine

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 17 recipes, and they share 113 flavor molecules: the top 15% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together17 recipes
Ranktop 15% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Fig Red wine
229fig only 113shared 170red wine only Fig · 342 Red wine · 283
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do fig and red wine go together?

Yes. 17 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 113 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 15% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 113 flavor molecules: 40% of red wine's 283. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

What each one brings

fig

The tartness. Sour notes make up 17% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for red wine. It carries 229 molecules red wine doesn't have.

red wine

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 34% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 20% for fig. It carries 170 molecules fig doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Pear: the best fit for both, top 2% of pairs with fig, top 6% with red wine.
  • Plum: top 4% of pairs with fig, top 5% with red wine.
  • Apple: top 4% of pairs with fig, top 9% with red wine.
  • Grape: top 4% of pairs with fig, top 9% with red wine.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with fig and red wine

We have no browsable recipe that lists both fig and red wine.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: fig has 229 molecules red wine doesn't, and red wine has 170 that fig doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 113 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 229 only in fig and the 170 only in red wine.

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Fig and red wine questions

Do fig and red wine go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 17 recipes, and they share 113 flavor molecules: the top 15% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do fig and red wine taste good together?

They overlap on 113 flavor molecules: 40% of red wine's 283. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

What goes with fig and red wine?

Pear is the best third ingredient: top 2% of pairs with fig and top 6% with red wine. Plum and apple also fit both.

Can I use red wine instead of fig?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: fig has 229 molecules red wine doesn't, and red wine has 170 that fig doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Fig vs Red Wine. https://compkitchen.com/compare/fig-vs-red-wine. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_fig_vs_red_wine_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Fig vs Red Wine},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/fig-vs-red-wine},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.