What wine to serve...

4kicks
4kicks Posts: 549
edited August 2008 in The bottom bracket
.....with the following menu:

Olive Tapenade with Goats Cheese
Fillet of Veal with Vegetables
Oven Baked Hake in a Herb Butter
Chocolate Mousse with Peach Coulis

I realse this has NOTHING to do with Cycling, but thats on the Menu in my hotel tonight and I genuinely have NO idea what wine goes with these things to reccomend.

TIA
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    White, something light and citrusy.
    Neeermad
    Carbon 456
    456 lefty
    Pompino
    White Inbred
  • robbarker
    robbarker Posts: 1,367
    I'd choose something crisp amd delicious fort the first course to cut through the goats cheese - a nice steely Chablis for example. The veal would be OK with that but I'd prefer a subtle young to middle aged claret from around Pauillac or St Julien. You could bring out the Chablis again for the Hake but that desert would really benefit from a glass of desert wine.

    If I had to choose one bottle for the lot it would a Chablis, or something a little more fragrant, but nevertheless dry and acidic, such as a Sancerre. It could all be done with a claret if anyone were adverse to drinking white.
  • 4kicks
    4kicks Posts: 549
    Chablis(crisp & white) is a good idea. Its mostly Brits so they would be pretty averse to a Claret as, unfortunately for me, most tend to have one bottle of wine a night only
    I also have a wierd, Merlot White (!) which I think may work, but its the best wine to go with veal I cant get my head around.
    Thanks guys
    Fitter....healthier....more productive.....

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