Wine pairings for
Here are 3 recommended wine pairings for cafe gourmand. Click the button below to explore all options on the Verso app.
Banyuls
Banyuls (Grenache Noir oxidatively fortified on Catalan schist) — candied cherry, cocoa, roasted coffee and dried fig form the ultimate wine for café gourmand; coffee directly mirroring the espresso served at the centre of the plate, cocoa prolonging the chocolate mignardise, candied cherry holding the red-fruit verrine and butter madeleine.
Moscato d'Asti
Moscato d'Asti (Muscat à Petits Grains from Piedmont, Asti method at 5.5° and 100g/L residual sugar) — peach, orange, rose and light bubbles accompany the petit fours of café gourmand; sweet orange echoing tiramisu and orange-almond macaron, fine bubbles aerating the red-fruit verrine and chocolate mousse, 5.5° alcohol not weighing down a heavy meal's end.
Sauternes
Sauternes (botrytised Sémillon-Sauvignon-Muscadelle on Bordeaux graves) — acacia honey, candied apricot, mango and noble rot are pure luxury to close the meal with petit fours; honey doubling that of canelés and madeleines, apricot prolonging mini fruit tartlets, botrytis holding the espresso served alongside.