Wine and Food pairing: How to Pair Wine and Salmon ? (7 recipes) Salmon is a cold water fish prized by gourmets especially on the occasion of the holiday season. Generally Salmon comes from Scotland, Norway and Alaska. The main part of time the fish is farmed however it’s possible to find wild salmon…
Wine and Food pairing: How to Pair Wine and Scallops ? Scallop Saint-Jacques (Pecten Maximus) is a gourmet dish, queen of the holiday season. Scallop is tasty, refined mollusk, rich in trace elements, rich in iron, magnesium and protein. It consists of a shell, a white ivory flesh and an orange coral. The…
Wine and Food pairing: How to Pair Wine and Christmas capon ? The Capon is one of the traditional Christmas dishes. Capon is a poultry. It has a tender, delicate, fondant and tasty flesh. It’s fattier than other poultry. The Capon is traditionally cooked with a stuffing (chestnuts, foie gras, morels, porcini mushrooms, chanterelles,…
Wine & Food Pairing: What wine to drink with seafood, oysters and urchins? What to drink with crustaceans, shellfish, shrimps, periwinkles, langoustines, crab (Tourteau, KingCrab…), lobster, urchins, whelks, mussels, clams or oysters? The seafood platter is a French gastronomic speciality that is common to eat during Christmas time and summer time. It…
Wine & Food Pairing: What wine to choose to accompany a duck confit? The duck confit is an emblematic dish from the South West of France. It is a rich, tasty, dense and tender meat. This food comes from a slow and gentle cooking method. In fact this duck meat (thigh) is cooked slowly…