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Meal and wine pairing

La Grande Rue

Red

Still wine

Serve at: 15-17. °C (59-63 °F)

This wine is paired well with 65meals

Meal families

Beef

Beef tenderloin with red wine emulsion

Red wine emulsion: red wine brought to the boil, flambéed, then reduced with veal stock and crème fraîche before being added to butter and whisked.

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Beef

Beef with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle

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Cheeses

Brillat-Savarin

France. Burgundy. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Forges-les-Eaux.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.

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Cheeses

Dauphin

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord.
Maroilles form.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Warm starters

Duck foie gras with black truffle in puff pastry

Puff pastry coating duck foie gras with black truffle.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.
Served hot.

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Poultry

Duck Montmorency

Duck served with a poultry cream sauce and Montmorency cherries.

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Poultry

Geline with black truffle

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb with spring vegetables and Soubise sauce

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Soubise sauce : béchamel with onion, butter, fresh cream, salt and pepper.

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Cheeses

Langres

France. Grand Est. Haute-Marne. Vosges. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte-d'Or.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb in puff pastry

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Eggs

Meurette sauce

Red wine sauce with bacon and onion compote.

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