Meal and wine pairing
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Mead
Serve at: 08-14°C or 46-57 °F.
Can be drunk as soon as it is marketed.
Aging potential (estimation) : 10 years.
This drink is paired well with:
Meal families
Cheeses
Bethmale de chèvre
France. Occitania. Ariège.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a washed rind orange-colored.
Ripening : 4 months.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Castelmagno
Italy. Cuneo. Castelmagno, Pradleves and Monterosso Grana.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from whole buffalo’s milk with a washed rind, sometimes, a small amount of sheep's or goat's milk may be added.
Ripening : 2 to 5 months.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Castelmagno and hazelnuts risotto
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Castelmagno with honey and black truffle
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Castelrosso
Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 months.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Chestnut fritters
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Chocolate crêpe
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Dream weaver
United States. California.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 weeks.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Appetizers and Amuse-bouches
Duck foie gras canapé
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Poultry
Duck foie gras croquettes
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Appetizers and Amuse-bouches
Duck foie gras toast
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Poultry
Duck foie gras with honey
Served cold, warm or hot.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Garrotxa
Spain. Catalonia. Tarragona.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a bloomy rind of gray or blue-gray color.
Ripening : 4 to 8 weeks.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Serve with the most mature cheeses.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Honey crepe
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
La Sentinelle
Canada. Quebec.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 weeks.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Leonardo
Italy.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and washed rind.
Ripening : 2 months.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Patacabra
Spain. Aragon. Zaragoza.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk cheese and washed rind from a reddish color to an orange-brown color.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Serve with the most mature cheeses.
Cheeses
Schloss
United States. California.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with orange washed rind, packed in a wooden box.
Ripening : 5 months.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
St. Albans
United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with bloomy rind.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Sugar crepe
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Twelfth night cake
Frangipane : almond-based cream mixed with pastry cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Cheeses
Twig farm goat tomme
United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cheese made from goat's milk with a natural rind ranging in color from grey to brown.
Ripening : 3 to 5 months.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.
Serve with the most mature cheeses.
Once you open the bottle, can last it in the fridge for one month.