Skip to main content

Food and wine pairing ideas

  • Français
  • English
  • Español

Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach

> view pairings

Sea fish

Herring with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

> view pairings

Shellfish and Seafood

Small oysters

Smallest oysters (number 5 : between 30 and 45 grams).
Don't forget the bread and butter on the side.

> view pairings

Desserts

Apple crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

> view pairings

Cold starters

Eggs Benedict and smoked salmon

Two halves of English muffin topped with fried bacon, poached egg and hollandaise sauce.

> view pairings

Sauces

Paprika sauce

Velouté reduced with cream, veal sauce, onion and paprika.

> view pairings

Cheeses

Brebis Echourgnac

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Ewe's milk cheese, pressed and uncooked.

> view pairings

Rabbit

Saddle of rabbit with mustard

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

> view pairings

Desserts

Pâté aux prunes

France. Pays de la Loire. Maine-et-Loire.
Pie in short pastry or puff pastry with unpitted plums.

> view pairings

Main meals

Cottage cheese pierogi

Poland.
Pierogi : Pasta stuffed and cooked in boiling water.
Served hot or cold.

> view pairings

Desserts

Streusel cake

Streusel: Alsatian brioche on which there's a kind of crumble made from butter, cinnamon, flour, almonds and sugar powder.

> view pairings

Game animals

Venison fillet with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

> view pairings

Desserts

Red fruit cookie tulip

Cookie tulip : container for dessert (baked dough made with butter, egg white, flour and icing sugar).

> view pairings

Salads

Parisian salade

Salad with lettuce, button mushroom, cheese (generally diced of Comté or Emmental), Jambon de Paris (diced), hard-boiled egg, potato and tomato.
Seasoned with a vinaigrette with parsley and pickles.

> view pairings

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

French beans

> view pairings