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Orange + Red wine

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 288 recipes, and they share 115 flavor molecules: the top 15% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together288 recipes
Ranktop 15% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Orange Red wine
351orange only 115shared 168red wine only Orange · 466 Red wine · 283
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do orange and red wine go together?

Yes. 288 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 115 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 15% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 115 flavor molecules: 41% of red wine's 283. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

What each one brings

orange

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 13% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 4% for red wine. It carries 351 molecules red wine doesn't have.

red wine

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 34% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 16% for orange. It carries 168 molecules orange doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Rosemary: the best fit for both, top 3% of pairs with orange, top 7% with red wine.
  • Plum: top 8% of pairs with orange, top 5% with red wine.
  • Thyme: top 5% of pairs with orange, top 9% with red wine.
  • Clove: top 6% of pairs with orange, top 8% with red wine.

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

Recipes with orange and red wine

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: orange has 351 molecules red wine doesn't, and red wine has 168 that orange 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 115 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 351 only in orange and the 168 only in red wine.

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Orange and red wine questions

Do orange and red wine go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 288 recipes, and they share 115 flavor molecules: the top 15% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do orange and red wine taste good together?

They overlap on 115 flavor molecules: 41% of red wine's 283. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

What goes with orange and red wine?

Rosemary is the best third ingredient: top 3% of pairs with orange and top 7% with red wine. Plum and thyme also fit both.

Can I use red wine instead of orange?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: orange has 351 molecules red wine doesn't, and red wine has 168 that orange 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: Orange vs Red Wine. https://compkitchen.com/compare/orange-vs-red-wine. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_orange_vs_red_wine_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Orange vs Red Wine},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/orange-vs-red-wine},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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