Skip to main content

Food and wine pairing ideas

  • Français
  • English
  • Español

Meal families

Main meals

Matelote with riesling

Matelote : white wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Black Betty

Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with black waxed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

> view pairings

Sea fish

Salmon in parchment with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

> view pairings

Sauces

Porcini mushroom cream sauce

Porcini mushroom sauce : porcini mushrooms and shallots with veal stock, cream and white wine.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Cave aged marisa

United States. Wisconsin.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.
Ripening : 3 months.

> view pairings

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Steamed green asparagus

> view pairings

Main meals

Baeckeoffe

France. Grand Est. Alsace.
Dish made with potatoes, meats, and mixed vegetables, slowly cooked with spices and white wine.

> view pairings

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood lasagna

> view pairings

Desserts

Savarin with rum

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Rebibes de L’Etivaz

Rebibes : cheese shavings.

> view pairings

Cooked meats

Andouille de Guémené

Andouille : pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.
Served cold as first course.

> view pairings

Main meals

Auvergne style potée

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

> view pairings

Beef

Steak au poivre

Beef flambéed with Cognac and served with a pepper sauce flavored with white wine, Marsala, or Port, and optionally accompanied by mustard.

> view pairings

Warm starters

Sautéed duck foie gras escalope with black truffle juice

Truffle juice : juice obtained during the sterilization of the truffle.

> view pairings

Offal and tripe

Tripes à la mode de Caen

France. Normandy.
Stew made with the four parts of a veal’s stomach (rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) and an ox foot.

> view pairings