Meal and wine pairing
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Saint-Joseph Blanc
Serve at: 10-12°C or 50-54 °F.
Can be drunk from : 1 year.
Aging potential (estimation) : 3 to 10 years old.
This drink is paired well with:
Meal families
Cheeses
Ada’s Honor
United States. Maine.
Soft-ripened cheese made from goat's milk with a bloomy rind.
Sauces
Aïoli
Provençale sauce.
An emulsion made with garlic and olive oil, sometimes enriched with egg yolk or lemon juice.
Sauces
Americaine sauce
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."
Cured Meats
Andouillette
Pre-cooked sausage usually made from pork intestine (intestine and stomach), sometimes from veal (veal sweetbread), never smoked, to be pan-fried, oven-heated, or grilled.
Served hot.
Cured Meats
Andouillette with cream
Andouillette cooked with butter and deglazed with cream.
Served hot.
Cured Meats
Andouillette with pommes Pont-Neuf potatoes
Andouillette cooked with white wine and deglazed with cream.
Pont-Neuf potatoes : rectangular potatoes cut like big french fries and fried in oil twice.
Cured Meats
Andouillette with white wine
Andouillette cooked with white wine and deglazed with cream.
Appetizers and Amuse-bouches
Antipasti
« before the meal »
Prefer a pairing according the side dish.
Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Apicius pie
Pie with a filling of poultry, honey, and spices.
Prefer a pairing with a wine of at least 3 years old.
Appetizers and Amuse-bouches
Arancini
Italy. Sicilia.
Breaded and fried rice balls or cones, 8 to 12 cm in diameter, typically filled with ragù, peas, and cheese, or with ham cubes and mozzarella.
Served hot.
Freshwater fish
Artic char with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
Prefer a pairing with a rich and oaky wine.
Pairing with a dominant Marsane grape.
Cheeses
Ashbrook
United States. Vermont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of ash from ash tree.
Ripening : 3 months.
Serve with the less mature cheeses.
Shellfish and Seafood
Bay scallop carpaccio with black truffle oil
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Pair with a wine over 3 years old.
Shellfish and Seafood
Bay scallop carpaccio with tapenade
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Tapenade : garlic, capers, anchovy fillets, black olives, pepper, and olive oil.
Prefer a regional pairing.