Meal and wine pairing

Sheep and Goats

Abbacchio cacciatore

Chasseur sauce : made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

Main meals

Aligot

Aligot : mashed potatoes mixed with butter, cream, crushed garlic, and melted cheese (Tome fraîche de l’Aubrac).

Main meals

Aligot and grilled sausage

Main meals

Aligot and grilled Toulouse sausage

Cooked meats

Andouillette sausage

Pork sausage using the small intestine of the pig.
Served hot.

Cooked meats

Andouillette sausage with shallots

Sausage cooked with white wine, butter and shallot.

Beef

Bacon cheeseburger

Eggs

Baked egg

Others

Barbecue

Sauces

Béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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.

Beef

Beef daube with carrots

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.

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.

Pork

Black pudding

Pork

Black pudding pan fried

Pork

Black pudding with apple

Cheeses

Bleu d’Auvergne

France. Massif Central.
Pasteurized or raw cow's milk blue cheese.

Cheeses

Bleu de Gex

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Haut-Jura.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.

Cheeses

Blue cheese

Sheep's, goat's and/or cow's milk cheeses with mold in the cheese in colors between blue and grey-green.

Sauces

Bolognese sauce

Meat sauce with soffritto (Italian version of a mirepoix) onion, celery and carrot. The different types of meat are chopped or finely chopped and cooked slowly.

Consommé and Soup

Borscht

Ukraine.
Soup with beetroot, mushrooms, vegetables (carrot, cabbage, cucumber, beans, onion, potato, tomato) and meat (beef, pork or chicken).

Beef

Braised beef with carrots

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

Beef

Braised rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

Sheep and Goats

Braised shoulder of lamb

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