Food and wine pairing
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Saumur Puy Notre-Dame
Still red wine(s)
Serve at 16-18°C or 61-64 °F.
Aging potential (estimation) : 10 to 15 years old.
This drink pairs well with 14 dishes:
Beef
Beef daube
Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.
Prefer a pairing with a wine over 10 years old.
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Beef
Beef tongue with sauce ravigote
Ravigote sauce : cold or hot acidic sauce based on velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).
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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Fouace angevine
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Warm round loaf filled with pork rillettes.
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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Fouée with mojette beans
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Mojette beans : white beans from Vendée.
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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Fouée with rillauds
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Hot bread roll stuffed with rillauds.
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Cured Meats
Head cheese
Small pieces of pork meat (cheeks, snout, tongue, etc), usually cooked with small pieces of carrots, pickles, shallots or onion, seasoned with garlic, spices, parsley and molded in aspic.
Served cold.
Prefer a pairing with a wine under 6 years old.
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Beef
Rib steak with coarse salt and bone marrow
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
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Beef
Roasted rib steak with fleur de sel
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
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Veal
Tête de veau with ravigote sauce
Ravigote sauce : cold or hot acidic sauce based on velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).
Prefer a pairing with a wine under 6 years old.
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