Meal and wine pairing

Sheep and Goats

Abbacchio cacciatore

Chasseur sauce : made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

Cooked meats

Andouillette sausage with shallots

Sausage cooked with white wine, butter and shallot.

Appetizers

Arancini al burro

Italy. Sicilia.
Breaded and fried rice balls or cones 8 to 12 cm in diameter, usually stuffed with diced ham and mozzarella./ Served hot.

Main meals

Auvergne style potée

Potée : mixture of meat or sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.

Poultry

Basque-style chicken

Sauces

Béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

Beef

Beef cheek with carrots

Beef

Beef daube

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

Beef

Beef skewers

Beef

Beef tenderloin with porcini

Beef

Beef tournedos with béarnaise sauce

Tournedos: slice cut from the end portion of tenderloin.
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

Beef

Beef tournedos with bone marrow

Tournedos: slice cut from the end portion of tenderloin.

Poultry

Beer chicken

Chicken cooked in the oven with a cream and beer sauce.

Cheeses

Bent River

United States. Minnesota.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 5 weeks.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle

Eggs

Black truffle omelette

Eggs

Black truffle omelette with mushrooms

Warm starters

Black truffle raviole

Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.

Fruits

Blackberry

Desserts

Blackberry panna cotta

Veal

Blanquette de veau

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

Cheeses

Blue cheese

Sheep's, goat's and/or cow's milk cheeses with mold in the cheese in colors between blue and grey-green.

Beef

Boeuf à la mode

Meat cooked in a pot over a low heat with white wine, carrots, onion and broth.

Cheeses

Bohemian blue

United States. Wisconsin.
Blue-veined pasteurized ewe's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 to 6 weeks.