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Meal and wine pairing

Gaillac Méthode ancestrale

Sparkling wine

Serve at: 06-08. °C (43-46 °F)

This wine is paired well with 47meals

Meal families

Appetizers

Antipasti

« before the meal »

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Desserts

Apple cobbler

United States.
Cobbler : dessert with both a top and bottom crust with a fruit filling poured into a baking dish.

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Appetizers

Arancini

Italy. Sicilia.
Breaded and fried rice balls or cones 8 to 12 cm in diameter, usually stuffed with ragu, peas and cheese, or diced ham and mozzarella./ Served hot.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Banana split

Ice cream-based dessert made with a banana cut in half lengthwise and three scoops of ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry in France, three scoops vanilla in Belgium) all of which are topped with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Big woods blue

United States. Minnesota.
Pasteurized blue-veined ewe's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Black Betty

Netherlands. North Holland.
Hard pasteurized goat’s milk cheese wrapped in black wax.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Fruits

Brasucado

France. Cevennes.
Cooking chestnuts over a wood fire in a large frying pan.

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Appetizers

Breadsticks

Sticks of crisp and dry bread.

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Desserts

Cassata

Italy. Sicily. Sponge cake with fruit juices or liqueur stuffed with ricotta cheese and a chocolate or vanilla filling. Covered with a shell of marzipan, usually green, and topped with candied fruit.

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Desserts

Charlotte royale

Charlotte made with bavarian cream and ladyfingers.

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Desserts

Croquembouche

Tiered cake with choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel.

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Desserts

Custard tart

Short pastry filled with egg custard and baked.

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Desserts

Empress rice pudding

Rice pudding with bavarian cream flavored with kirsch and candied fruit.

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Desserts

Frangipane tart

Frangipane: almond based cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum mixed with pastry cream.

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Cheeses

Hopelessly Bleu

United States. Texas.
Soft blue-veined pasteurized goat's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 3 months.

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Desserts

Merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Desserts

Mirlitons de Rouen

France. Normandy. Rouen.
Tartlet filled with a cream made from butter, cream, eggs, ground almonds, sugar and vanilla.

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