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Meal and wine pairing

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Saint-Julien

Red

Still wine

Serve at: 15-17. °C (59-63 °F)

This wine is paired well with 141meals

Meal families

Cheeses

Ardi-gasna

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Sheep cheese with raw milk. The rind is rubbed with a paste made from Espelette peppers.

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Beef

Beef daube

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle turnover

Puff pastry containing lightly-cooked duck foie gras with black truffle wrapped in prosciutto and flavored with Armagnac, Cognac or Madeira.

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Beef

Bordeaux style rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Poultry

Braised duck

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Sheep and Goats

Braised Seven hour leg of lamb with sweet potatoes

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
One thigh is called Chump. Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..
Seven hour : Slow-cooking leg of lamb in wine with garlic and herbs until it is fall-off-the-bone tender and luscious

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Brown sauce

Reduced sauce made from brown stock and tomato paste or a brown roux with butter, onion and flavored bacon with a bouquet garni.

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