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

Sheep and Goats

Baron of lamb with porcini

Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.

Beef

Beef bourguignon

Long cooking over low heat in a closed container of beef cooked in red wine with mushrooms, onions and bacon. Served with boiled potatoes or pasta.

Beef

Beef braised in red wine

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.

Pork

Black pudding with apple

Cheeses

Boulette d’Avesnes

France. Pas-de-Calais. Avesnes.
Cow's milk cheese flavored with parsley, pepper, tarragon, and cloves and later shaped into a cone by hand.
Ripening : 3 months.

Cheeses

Brousse

Provence. Cheese made from a combination of milk and whey from sheep, goat or cow.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chanterelle

Sauces

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.

Poultry

Chicken curry

Poultry

Chicken en barbouille

En barbouille : chicken cooked with the blood to thicken the sauce.

Poultry

Chicken Marengo

Marengo : cooked in a casserole dish with mushrooms, onion, tomato with white wine.

Pork

Cold roast pork

Rabbit

Confit rabbit with herbs

Cooked meats

Country style terrine

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

Pork

Creole black pudding

Sheep and Goats

Crusted lamb

Condiments

Curry

Spicy preparation of yellow or orange color, very fragrant, ranging from very mild to very spicy.

Pork

Curry pork loin

Game animals

Doe fillet with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.

Game animals

Doe roast