Meal and wine pairing
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Champagne Blanc Sec
Vins effervescents blancs
Serve at: 08-10°C ou 46-50 °F.
Can be drunk as soon as it is marketed.
Aging potential (estimation) : 1 to 2 years old.
This drink is paired well with 25 meals:?>
Meal families
Desserts
Angel’s food cake
A type of vanilla sponge cake often served covered with red berry coulis and strawberries.
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Blanquette de veau
Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.
Desserts
Cassata
Italy. Sicily.
Sponge cake soaked with fruit juice or liqueur and filled with ricotta and chocolate or vanilla cream. Covered with green-colored almond paste icing and candied fruits.
Desserts
Chocolate merveilleux
Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.
Desserts
Croquembouche with vanilla custard
Small cream puffs filled with vanilla cream and assembled with caramel.
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Macarons
Cupcakes made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.
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Merveilleux
Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.
Desserts
Petit four glacé
Glazed : spreading a shiny, often sweet, substance over food before finishing the cooking, so that when served, the food has a shiny appearance.
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Praline mille-feuille
Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.
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Sole fillets with white wine sauce
White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.
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Vanilla charlotte
Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.
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Vanilla religieuse
Religieuse : pastry composed of two small choux pastries filled with flavored pastry cream and covered with fondant and buttercream.
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Whippet cookie
Dry biscuit topped with dome-shaped marshmallow, all coated in chocolate.
Sometimes, you find a fruit jelly between the marshmallow and the biscuit.