Skip to main content

Food and wine pairing ideas

  • Français
  • English
  • Español

Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops in olive oil and lemon

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

> view pairings

Game birds

Thrushes cassolette with black olive

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

> view pairings

Poultry

Casseroled chicken bonne femme

Bonne femme sauce : butter, button mushrooms, cream, shallot, parsley and white wine.

> view pairings

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Two peppers pizza

Pizza with yellow and red bell peppers and mozzarella.

> view pairings

Beef

Beef daube and mashed potato with black truffle

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

> view pairings

Freshwater fish

Trout with red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.

> view pairings

Sea fish

Balik salmon

Balik : smoked salmon from a fillet cut from the back of the salmon.

> view pairings

Sea fish

Braised sea bass with fennel

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

> view pairings

Rabbit

Saddle of rabbit with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

> view pairings

Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster à l’américaine

American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."

> view pairings

Desserts

Mango bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

> view pairings

Sea fish

Poached darne of salmon

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Persillé de Tignes

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Tarentaise. Tignes.
Blue cheese made from a blend of raw goat’s (80%) and cow’s (20%) milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and natural rind.

> view pairings

Poultry

Chicken supreme with pineapple

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

> view pairings

Veal

Roast milk-fed veal with Saint George’s mushrooms

Milk-fed veal : veal under 20 weeks old, fed exclusively on milk.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Buttermilk blue

United States. Wisconsin.
Blue cheese made from raw cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

> view pairings