Wine pairings for
Here are 3 recommended wine pairings for poireaux vinaigrette. Click the button below to explore all options on the Verso app.
Muscadet
Muscadet sur lie (Melon de Bourgogne, Nantes) — iodine, lemon and green apple accompany warm leek with mustard vinaigrette; Atlantic salinity answering leek's gentle bitterness, sharp acidity absorbing the vinegar (rare case of wine holding against vinaigrette).
Petit Chablis
Petit Chablis (Chardonnay on younger Portlandian limestone than Chablis village) — lemon, green apple and chalky minerality accompany leeks vinaigrette with finesse; chiselled acidity digesting vinegar, flinty edge echoing the slight sulphurous note of cooked leek.
Sauvignon de Touraine
Touraine Sauvignon Blanc (on Loire flint and flint-clays) — boxwood, citrus and herbal vivacity echo leek's vegetal character; cut-grass edge prolonging warm leek, taut acidity holding Dijon mustard vinaigrette.