Meal and wine pairing

Main meals

Aligot and grilled sausage

Aligot : mashed potatoes blended with butter, cream, and fresh Tome cheese from Aubrac, enriched with finely chopped or crushed garlic.

Main meals

Aligot and grilled Toulouse sausage

Aligot : mashed potatoes blended with butter, cream, and fresh Tome cheese from Aubrac, enriched with finely chopped or crushed garlic.

Cooked meats

Andouillette

Pre-cooked sausage usually made from pork intestine (intestine and stomach), sometimes from veal (veal sweetbread), never smoked, to be pan-fried, oven-heated, or grilled.
Served hot.

Cooked meats

Andouillette with shallots

Andouillette cooked with dry white wine, butter, and shallots.
Served hot.

Cheeses

Ardrahan

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind orange-colored.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

Cheeses

Ashbrook

United States. Vermont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of ash from ash tree.
Ripening : 3 months.

Main meals

Auvergne style potée

Potée : mixture of meat or sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.

Cooked meats

Baked ham

Condiments

Basil

Sauces

Béarnaise sauce

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

Beef

Beef bourguignon

Slow-cooked beef in red wine in a covered pot, with mushrooms, pearl onions, and bacon.
Served with boiled potatoes or pasta.

Beef

Beef bourguignon with fresh pasta

Beef

Beef bourguignon with steamed potatoes

Beef

Beef carpaccio

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.

Beef

Beef cheek with black truffle mashed potatoes

Beef

Beef daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

Beef

Beef daube and mashed potato with black truffle

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

Beef

Beef estouffade

Estouffade : long cooking in liquid over low heat in a closed container.

Beef

Beef skewers

Poultry

Beer chicken

Oven-baked chicken with a cream and beer sauce.

Cheeses

Bent River

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

Cheeses

Bijou

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

Pork

Black pudding

Beef

Bordeaux style entrecote

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.