Meal and wine pairing

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Tursan

White

Still wine

Serve at: 08-10. °C (46-50 °F)

This wine is paired well with 17meals

Meal families

Main meals

Basque piperade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Culinary specialty based on green and red peppers, chilli pepper, onions and tomatoes, served with eggs, meat or fish.

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Sea fish

Bilbao eels

Basque Country.
Dish with elver eels, garlic, olive oil and chili pepper.

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Poultry

Chicken in cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam and green sauce

Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with mashed chervil, cress, spinach and parsley.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Consommé and Soup

France. Gascony.
Cabbage Soup with vegetables (beans, potatoes, turnips, large peas, onion, garlic, carrot, turnip …) and piece of confit meat (duck, pork, goose giblets, pork shank, ham, sausage ...).

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Sea fish

Grilled shad

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Sauces

Red pepper sauce

Sauce made with cream, olive oil, onion and red pepper.

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Freshwater fish

Roast pike-perch

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Cheeses

Rocamadour

France. Quercy.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.
Ripening : 6 days minimum.

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Main meals

Seafood platter

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Shellfish and Seafood

Tellines mariniere with herbs

Tellines: small clams of Camargue with long flat shell.
Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie