No foie gras without....

...the right wine !

Philippe was so right in his comment to my last post, how can I dare to talk about foie gras without mentioning the wine to go with it. Shame on me. If you eat foie gras, and don't suppport it by a glass of matching wine, you spoil the whole experience. As essential as good bread and fleur de sel to make the experience perfect.

The classic match is a sweet white Bordeaux wine, Sauternes. There are other possibilities though, as Sauternes might be too sweet for some, and the big challenge is also with which wine do you continue your meal if you start with Sauternes ?

Other good matches :

- Gewurztraminer ("vendanges tardives")
- Coteaux de Layon  (less sweet)
- Muscat (de Rivesaltes, for examples)
- similar to Sauternes but less expensive : Loupiac, Sainte-Croiz du Mont
- Jurancon
- or as a dry white wine alternative a Chardonnay, like for example a Meursault

So I hope I made up for this "minor" mistake in my last post. I confirm again, it is really essential to be able to enjoy the foie gras tast to the fullest !

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Comments

[philippe]

Hi Ulla,
You are turning into Mary Higgins Clark clone with your suspens on your new direction (or not ?) :))
Thanks so much for adding a post dedicated to my comments. I feel proud now ;)
I fully agree with your list. To answer your question, I remember an advice about Sauternes as a starter : you have to take a soup after it to avoid spoiling the following.
Also I have to say that people often tells me Sauternes is "too sweet" for them, but actually this is only an indication they tasted a bad one. Great Sauternes (1er cru, and millesime is VERY important, remember Nayrac 1995) are NOT too sweet, because they manage to keep high level of acidity to balance sweetness. Otherwise I agree you end up feeling like you´ve just eaten 1kg of candies.
OK I stop for now, and I hope you will tell us soon what you are aiming to. I was saying to Sophie that you are too multi-talented to waste your strentgh competing with young narrow minded people. All-around players in basketball often face the same issue until tehy meet a goos coach :)