Skip to main content

Food and wine pairing ideas

  • Français
  • English
  • Español

Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustine bisque

Bisque : creamy soup of clear, shellfish stock.

> view pairings

Sea fish

Bordeaux style shad

Bordeaux or Bordelaise style : with shallots, parsley, and red wine.

> view pairings

Poultry

Guinea fowl with paprika sauce

Paprika sauce : reduced velouté with cream, veal jus, onion, and paprika.

> view pairings

Desserts

Dark chocolate mousse tart

Tart shell filled with chocolate mousse.
Served cold.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

> view pairings

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Morel mushroom pie

> view pairings

Cheeses

Charolais

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Produced in Allier, Loire, Rhone and Saone-et-Loire.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Mascaré de Banon

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Soft-ripened cheese made from a blend of whole raw sheep's and goat's milk rectangular cheese curdled with a natural rind.

> view pairings

Others

Snails cassolette with cream and morel

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

> view pairings

Desserts

Diplomat pudding

Sponge cake soaked with Grand Marnier (sometimes kirsch) with a pastry cream filled with candied fruit and covered with Chantilly cream topped with a candied cherry.

> view pairings

Others

Spring rolls

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

> view pairings

Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with spices

Navarin : stew.

> view pairings

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood rice

> view pairings

Cheeses

Oka ashed

Canada. Quebec.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a washed rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of ash from ash tree.

> view pairings