Please find below the 4 golden rules for Food & Wine matching. It is a very simplistic approach, but it works in most cases. Coulour Matching the colour of a dish to the colour of a wine works in 50% cases. For example, a bull’s casserole (“daube”), will match a string-coloured wine such as a […]
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Voici un accord mets-vins parfait pour les soirées de début d’automne : une moussaka version Marion (+ de légumes et d’épices, moins de viande et de gras…) et un excellent Terrasses du Larzac Mollard et Fillon, bien de ma région ! La recette Pour 4 à 5 personnes – 1h30 Ingrédients Légumes : 3 aubergines, 1 […]
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This is a mediterranean soup recipe which is perfect to end the summer. You can either make it with vegetables only and serve it as a starter, warm or cold, or, just like me, add some rice to make it a main course. Serves 6 to 8 – 1 hour Ingredients 2 onions 3 garlic […]
I attended last night an afterwork workshop organized by Inter Rhône on Wine & Strawberries pairing. Gérard Roche from the Chambre d’Agriculture du Vaucluse introduced us to different strawberry varieties. Then the sommelière Géraldine Clément selected five wines that paired with these strawberries according to their texture, sugar and acidity levels. Very unusual and interesting!
We all know the happy marriage of Wine & Cheese. You can actually read my infographics about Cheese & Wine Pairings here. Tea, just like wine, is aromatic and has tannins, with different strength levels depending on the type of tea we are looking at: Green Tea, Oolong, Black Tea, Rooibos or Pu erh. Therefore […]
Cheese and Wine tend to work very well together (please see my last infographics about this here – click). But Comté is a multiform cheese. Its taste and aromas depend on the micro-region where it was produced, the local microflora, the season in which the cheese was made, the distinctive style of the cheesemaker, the cellar […]
Matching Asian Food with Wine is not easy as Far-Eastern food is so different from Western Food, where most wines are produced. Colours, textures, flavours are so different from our Western references. This is the reason why I have put together this infographics explaining the 8 things to take into account to choose your wine […]
In trems of wine and cheese pairings, our parents and grand parents only ever thought of red, perfect to finish a meal. However white wine tends to work better with cheese. Explanations below… Red wines habe, in general, a lower acidity than white wines, but also more tannins. Most cheeses have a high fat and […]
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