champagne combinations
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The assortment of Tange-Gerard champagnes is wide. You may choose between white or rosé champagnes, a grape blend of mainly Chardonnay or Pinot grapes, vintage or not, single plot or blend of plots in the bottle. Your choice them to find the great match for your reception, candlelight dinner or as your perfect aperitif.
Maybe you appreciate a bit to accompany the bubbles? An easy one is always welcome in Soulieres and even better when it reflects the season around us.
Champagne in your pretty glasses bring the spirits to the next level in any gathering from the pop of the first bottle.
welcome and starter: vegetarian or anything that swim?
Black olives from Nyons
It will be hard to find an easier treat than a bunch of quality black olives from Nyons in Provence. Just perfect to match Sollissandre Blancs. A homeade tapenade based on these same black olives obviously combine equally nice.
Green tapenade with veggies
Prepare you own tapenade from good, green olives, herbes, cheese, almonds or whatever you tend to use. Prepare cucumber, carrots, radish or how’s about thin, green asparagus to dip in your olivetreat.
Grillede grøntsager
Cut a selection of zucchini, bell pebbers and egg fruit in smaller pieces and let them rest a while in marinade, before you cook them on the barbeque. A bit of preparation for a maximum of taste.
Ceviche
White fish cooked in a lemon juice marinade. Cod, halibutor whatever is good at your local fishmonger. Marinate with lemon, lime or similar. Nice with herbs and a bit of finely chopped shallot.
maincourse: veggies, fish or meat?
BBQ
When the fire is lit for outdoor meaty treats, try simple barbecue skewers with chicken or turkey on the stick by turns with vegetables or go for the classic to beat them all. In Champagne the sausages go by names like Chipolata and Merguez. Now and then the butcher makes a variant with herbs as well.
Vitello Tonnato
The classic Italian combination of cold sliced veal and tuna in good company with the double identity of the Noirs et Blancs: two parts of Pinot Meunier and one part of Chardonnay.
Salad of new potatoes
Cold, new potatoes, sliced and mixed with fresh herbs, lemon and oliveoil or a pesto based on herbs from the garden. Served with Bayonne-ham if you like.
Lemon chicken
Casserole with cut up chicken with lemon and Moroccan inspired spices like cumin, garlic, chilli, ginger and saffron.
sweet and salty: keen on dessert or rather cheese?
Early summer: Tomme de Savoie
Choose cheeses made of milk from the spring like a young Cantal, a Tomme de Savoie or a St Nectaire. Try them with Solliphere from 2014.
Red summerberries in good company
Strawberries matured by the sun and raspberries from the garden are the unbeatable sign of summer. In Champagne, the reddest of the summer berries are brought to the table together.
Crumble with summerfruits
Try a summer crumble with well matured apricots or sweet peaches. Later you may go for plums. Anyhow, you need equal proportions of almond flour, flour, sugar and butter for the crumble.
Late summer: Chaource
When summer is about to end, soft cheeses like Chaource and Brie are good choices. Combine the Chaource with Rosé d’Assemblage and the Brie with Noirs & Blanc .
