Meal and wine pairing

Appetizers

Antipasti

« before the meal »

Cheeses

Ashy goat cheese

Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

Main meals

Baked Mont d’or

Baked Vacherin Mont-d'Or cheese.

Cheeses

Bleu de Gex

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Haut-Jura.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.

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.

Cheeses

Coach farm triple cream goat cheese

United States. New York.
Triple cream pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a white mould rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

Desserts

Cookie

Desserts

Doughnuts

Cold starters

Eggs Benedict and smoked salmon

Two halves of English muffin topped with fried bacon, poached egg and hollandaise sauce.

Freshwater fish

Fish quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

Desserts

Flemish waffles

Waffle stuffed with vergeoise (brown colored sugar), butter and rum, often flavored with vanilla.

Main meals

Fondue savoyarde

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Traditional Savoie cheese fondue (Beaufort, Comté, Emmenthal, Gruyère, Tomme de Savoie) where small cubes of bread are dipped.

Desserts

Frozen mandarin

Desserts

Frozen orange

Cheeses

Garrotxa

Spain. Catalonia. Tarragona.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a with a mouldy rind of gray or bluish-grey colour.
Ripening : 4 to 8 weeks.

Poultry

Gaston Gérard chicken

France. Burgundy. Dijon.
Chicken cooked with grated Comté cheese, fresh cream, Dijon mustard, paprika and white Burgundy wine.

Cheeses

Goat Cheese log

Appetizers

Gougères with Comté

Gougères stuffed with Comté cheese.

Cheeses

Lincoln log

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

Shellfish and Seafood

Oysters Rockefeller

Oysters cooked in breadcrumbs with spinach, parsley and a dash of anise liqueur.

Main meals

Pad thai

Thailand.
Rice noodles sautéed in a wok with grilled shrimp, bean sprouts, scrambled egg, crumbled tofu in a nam pla sauce (fish sauce).
Served with a sweet lime-based sauce.

Cheeses

Parmigiano Reggiano vecchio

Italy. Emilia Romagna and Lombardy south.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 18 to 24 months.

Cheeses

Patacabra

Spain. Aragon. Zaragoza.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a washed rind from a reddish color to a pale orange-brown color.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.

Desserts

Petit four