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Four fantastic feast-worthy halves to match a four-course meal at home
We’ve selected a delicious mix of four half bottles, all food-friendly:
Sparkling: Veuve Fourny Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs Champagne – Try this with smoked salmon canapes to whet your appetite for the rest of the meal. It is a brilliant wine with smoked salmon canapes or starters as the crisp acidity offsets the fattiness of the fish. It also works well with crab cakes and seafood risotto or for the classic match, fresh oysters, either plain or Rockefeller!
White Wine: Billaud-Simon Chablis – This is a clean, aromatic and lively take on the Chardonnay grape which is enjoyable by itself but also pairs superbly with a fresh salad and a variety of seafood/oyster dishes. Try with mushroom or vegetable soups such as potato and leek, or mushroom pie. Or, if available, Gougeres (Chablis’ tasty cheese pastries). Chablis can also match very well with poultry such as chicken or turkey, undressed and with all the trimmings or with a creamy sauce that offsets Chablis’ typically firm acidity.
Red Wine: Isole Chianti Classico – An impressive Chianti with plenty of flavour and firm structure, this is a great match for red meats, and try it with a main dish of goose too! It’s weighty enough to match meats and casseroles, without overpowering them. Try meatballs or lasagne for a classic Italian match, or wild boar ragu. For the end of a meal, it goes well with hard Italian cheeses such as Pecorino and Parmesan.
Sweet Wine: Carmes de Rieussec – to finish the meal with aplomb, this matches brilliantly with a fresh fruit tarte, and it goes marvellously with apple or rhubarb crumbles too. For a savoury choice, duck pate or blue cheese such as Stilton or Roquefort. Yum!
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