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What wine with foie gras?

Food and wine pairing · classic benchmarks: the preparation and your taste come first.

The festive pairing par excellence. Two schools: a classic sweet wine whose unctuousness mirrors the foie gras, or a dry aromatic white for a fresher contrast at the start of a meal.

White

An aromatic white (Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Chenin) keeps the palate fresh as a starter.

• Alsace Gewurztraminer
• Alsace Pinot Gris
• Vouvray

Sweet and fortified

The great classic: botrytised sweet wine against the richness of the foie, a pairing that needs nothing else.

• Sauternes
• Barsac
• Monbazillac
• Jurançon
• Coteaux du Layon
• Loupiac

How to use these pairings

A good pairing balances the dish and the wine: neither should dominate. The suggestions above are proven classics for the category, not rules: the preparation, the sauce and your taste matter more. When in doubt, the regional pairing (the wine from the dish's homeland) rarely fails.

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