Pairings | Grand cru

What wine to pair with goose

Posted on December 16 2018 at 07:24

If you’ve decided to serve goose rather than turkey this Christmas you’ve already opted to be adventurous. So you could arguably be adventurous about your wine (or other drink) pairing too.

Top pairings for dry and off-dry Alsace whites

Posted on April 15 2014 at 07:53

A re-run of an old post following a visit to Alsace, updating my recommendations on the best pairings for the region's dry and off-dry white wines.

Tags: grand cru late-harvest apple streudel apple crumble Alsace Muscat Sylvaner Pinot Blanc Gewürztraminer Riesling drink:white wine smoked ham fruit salad fresh fruit tropical fruit tropical fruit salad smoked cheese asparagus charcuterie stir fry tartiflette frittata fish cakes fish pie ham and cheese salad pasta with creamy sauce risotto quiche Lorraine tarte flambé onion tart duck goose Stinking Bishop washed rind cheese Maroilles Epoisses lobster laksa Munster cheese Korean cuisine Szechuan Chinese cuisine rogan josh Rogan Josh guinea fowl pigeon game pâté game monkfish scallops gravadlax mushrooms foie gras charcuterie pâté en croûte veal in creamy sauce chicken in creamy sauce veal food:beef & lamb Thai cuisine Japanese cuisine Chinese cuisine Indian cuisine Vietnamese cuisine food:world food citrus apple fish tacos crab cakes pad thai dim sum tandoori tandoori chicken chicken tikka korma curry curries pork belly food:pork goats cheese onion tart seabass sea bass eel fish terrine smoked eel Alsace blends salmon smoked salmon smoked fish seafood cocktail seafood salad crab oysters ceviche carpaccio tartare sashimi fish in creamy sauce smorgasbord sushi cinnamon creamy sauces sole plaice zander choucroute food:veg & salads food:chicken & poultry food:fruit food:fish & shellfish mango Riesling blends vendange tardive rogan josh
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Wine with lobster: 6 of the best pairings

Posted on September 25 2022 at 07:00

There’s such an obvious wine match for lobster (great chardonnay) that you might wonder if it was worth considering anything else but there are other interesting alternatives.

Dumplings and grand cru Chablis

Posted on September 29 2020 at 13:02

You might think dumplings were humble fare, not best suited to show off a great wine but as last week’s tasting lunch at Bob Bob Ricard proved, that’s not necessarily the case.

Tags: bob bob ricard grand cru Chablis Chablis drink:white wine truffles mushrooms crab lobster dumplings
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10 year old Bonnes-Mares grand cru burgundy and confit duck

Posted on November 11 2013 at 09:11

Rooting round the cellar (well, cupboard under the stairs) in France last week I stumbled across a bottle of 2003 Bonnes-Mares, a Grand Cru burgundy from Jean-Luc Aegerter I’d been sent as a sample about eight years ago and furtively stashed away until it was ready to drink.

Tags: partridge food:game confit duck duck food:chicken & poultry Bonnes-Mares grand cru burgundy burgundy drink:red wine
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Pairing food and Chablis

Posted on April 6 2021 at 07:39

Despite the emphasis that winemakers place on the different crus or terroirs of Chablis three factors seem to me to influence a food match more than any other for most of the Chablis you’ll taste - the age of the wine, the vintage and the degree of oak influence, if any.

Tags: drink:white wine Chablis premier cru chablis grand cru chablis oysters snails shellfish gougères ham jambon persillé chicken veal creamy sauces
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Chablis at Nobu

Posted on January 12 2012 at 07:12

Sometimes you go to a wine dinner with some trepidation wondering if the wine will stand up to the food but I was pretty optimistic that Domaine Long-Depaquit’s Chablis would survive at Nobu (the original Metropolitan hotel restaurant in London, not LA, sadly!)