Food and wine pairing
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Alsace Pinot gris
Still white wine(s)
Serve at 08-10°C or 46-50 °F.
Aging potential (estimation) : 3 to 10 years old.
This drink pairs well with 441 dishes:
Shellfish and Seafood
Sautéed scallops with white wine and mousseline spinach
White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.
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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches
Savory petits fours
Prefer a pairing according the side dish.
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Shellfish and Seafood
Scallops a la nage
Nage : cooked in a delicate broth flavored with butter, white wine, vegetables, and aromatic herbs.
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Shellfish and Seafood
Scallops cassolette with black truffle
Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
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Main courses
Seafood gumbo
United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.
Prefer a pairing with a wine with some residual sugar.
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Hot Starters
Seafood vol-au-vent
Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).
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Cold starters
Shrimp aspic
Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.
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Seafish
Smoked salmon
The richer the smoked salmon, more the wine must be marked by the acidity.
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Cold starters
Smoked salmon aspic with Champagne
Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.
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Hot Starters
Snails puff pastry
Dish made with puff pastry.
Prefer a pairing with a wine with few residual sugar.
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