What wine with veal blanquette?
Food and wine pairing · classic benchmarks: the preparation and your taste come first.
A creamy sauce and delicate meat: against the red-with-meat reflex, blanquette calls first for a rounded, buttery white that extends the sauce. A very supple red remains an option.
White
A rounded Chardonnay embraces the cream; this is the reference pairing.
Red
If red it must be: light, fresh and low in tannin.
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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