Christmas receptions and end-of-year celebrations are the perfect opportunity to taste the finest cuvées, Prestige champagnes and Vintage cuvées, which will go perfectly with the most refined dishes and leave a lasting impression on your guests. Here are a few tips for successful food and champagne pairings this holiday season.
Laurent-Perrier
Grand Siècle
Grand Siècle by Laurent-Perrier is a great champagne wine that has developed deep aromatic intensity and complexity, while preserving its freshness and liveliness over time. Served as an aperitif, it adds a sumptuous note to your receptions right from the start. This prestigious cuvée is also the perfect accompaniment to a festive meal, with high-quality produce and refined dishes. It is particularly well-suited to combinations of land and sea, shellfish, fish, noble meats and truffles.
The perfect pairing from Christian Le Squer, 2-star Michelin chef at Le V Hôtel George V in Paris: Sliced turbot a la plancha, watercress maceration & pickled pear.
Louis Roederer
Crystal
Cristal is a champagne of great vibrancy. The most famous of Louis Roederer’s wines can be enjoyed as an aperitif, but it’s also the perfect accompaniment to your festive meals, making it a perfect match for the finest, most delicate dishes.
Dom Pérignon
Vintage
With its precision and vivacity, Dom Pérignon Vintage 2013 is a perfect match for the minerality and freshness of seafood and caviar, as well as the leaner flesh of fish and white meats.
The perfect pairing from Christian Le Squer, 2-star Michelin chef at Le V Hôtel George V in Paris: Sliced turbot a la plancha, watercress maceration & pickled pear.
Rare Champagne
Rare
Exceptional Champagne, Rare Vintage 2008 is perfect with oysters or ginger and lemon dishes.
The perfect match from Chef Édouard Chouteau, gastronomic restaurant La Laiterie in Lambersart: Bouchée Apéritive – Oyster, ginger, lemon
Bollinger
La Grande Année
Precise, fine and complex with its minerality and exceptional intensity, La Grande Année 2014 is the ideal champagne for the biggest celebrations. Its creamy effervescence, combined with a fine vinosity and balanced by subtle acidity, makes it the ideal partner for refined dishes and noble products.
Chefs’ perfect pairings: Christopher Cottenceau ‘s recipe for prawn bouquets, red currant seaweed, dulse and sea lettuce; Chef Gabriel Kreuther’s Cannelloni of Alaskan king crab and sea urchin coulis; Eric Vildgaard‘s Turbot with langoustines; Chef Fabrizio Mellino‘s Fleur de calamar and langoustine tartar, black caviar and green apple.
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