Meal and wine pairing
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Meal families
Veal
Blanquette de veau with mushrooms
Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.
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.
Sauces
Bordelaise sauce
Reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.
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Brillat-Savarin
France. Burgundy. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Forges-les-Eaux.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.
Poultry
Chicken fricassee
Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.
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Fresh Écume De Wimereux
France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Soft-ripened raw double cream cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 1 week.
Game animals
Haunch of venison with huntsman sauce
Haunch : leg.
Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.
Sheep and Goats
Lamb 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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L’Explorateur
France. Ile de France. Seine-et-Marne. Saint Siméon.
Triple cream raw cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.
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Mt Tam
United States. California.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.
Game birds
Pheasant in chartreuse of vegetables
Chartreuse : dish cooked in a water bath consisting of cabbage (or other vegetables) braised arranged alternately layered with a meat to alternate colors.
Should be unmolded and served hot.