Meal and wine pairing

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 bourguignon with fresh pasta

Beef

Beef bourguignon with steamed potatoes

Cheeses

Bent River

United States. Minnesota.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 5 weeks.

Eggs

Black truffle omelette

Sea fish

Bordeaux style lamprey

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde.
Fish cooked in a red wine sauce mixed with its own blood and served with garlic croutons.

Warm starters

Bouchée à la reine

France. Lorraine.
Individual puff pastry garnish with veal sweetbreads.

Veal

Braised cushion of veal

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

Cheeses

Brie de Melun

France. Brie. Melun.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

Cheeses

Camembert

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

Cheeses

Camembert au calvados

Camembert bathed for several hours in Calvados then covered with breadcrumbs.

Poultry

Duck dodine

Kind of meatloaf.
Boneless meat duck, stuffed, and poached or braised, serve with a red wine sauce mixed with mushrooms and meat glaze.

Poultry

Grilled chicken

Beef

Hachis parmentier

Mashed potato combined with diced meat. French equivalent of cottage or shepherd's pie.

Game animals

Haunch of venison with huntsman sauce

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

Game animals

Jugged hare

Game animals

Jugged wild boar

Cheeses

Langres

France. Grand Est. Haute-Marne. Vosges. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte-d'Or.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

Cheeses

Livarot

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripenedcow's milk cheese, square-shaped with a washed rind, orange color.

Sauces

Madeira sauce

Demi-glace (brown stock reduced) with Madeira.

Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced in cubes cooked in a broth with white Burgundy wine with mustard and wine vinegar, jelly with parsley coated and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaves, garlic...).

Beef

Rib steak with cooking salt and bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

Game animals

Roast haunch of venison

Haunch : leg.

Game birds

Roast partridge