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Meal and wine pairing

Saint-Émilion Grand cru

Red

Still wine

Serve at: 16-18. °C (61-64 °F)

This wine is paired well with 77meals

Meal families

Beef

Beef bourguignon

Long cooking over low heat in a closed container of beef cooked in red wine with mushrooms, onions and bacon. Served with boiled potatoes or pasta.

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Main meals

Beef cheek hachis parmentier with black truffle

Hachis parmentier : Mashed potato combined with diced meat. French equivalent of cottage or shepherd's pie.

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Beef

Beef Wellington

Beef fillet in puff pastry with spices like curry or ginger.

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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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Sea fish

Bordeaux style lamprey

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde.
Fish cooked in a red wine sauce mixed with its own blood and served with garlic croutons.

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Cheeses

Chaource

France. Champagne-Ardenne.
Soft-ripened raw whole cow’s milk cheese with rind.

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Poultry

Coq au vin

Wine stewed chicken.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Duck pithivier

Puff pastry cake filled with duck confit, duck foie gras with mushrooms, onions and whiskey.

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Main meals

Eel matelote

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Freshwater fish

Eel stew with red wine

Eel cut into pieces and cooked in red wine.

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Cooked meats

Game animal pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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