Wine pairings for
Here are 3 recommended wine pairings for religieuse cafe. Click the button below to explore all options on the Verso app.
Banyuls
Banyuls (Grenache Noir oxidatively fortified on Catalan schists, minimum 30 months in foudres under Mediterranean sun) — roasted coffee, cocoa, candied cherry and fig form the reference pairing for coffee religieuse; roasted coffee DIRECTLY mirroring the Trablit coffee extract in pastry cream and the coffee fondant glaze, noble oxidative notes holding the two choux-pastry tiers, power balancing the sweet fondant and the buttercream bow-tie.
Pedro Ximénez
Jerez Pedro Ximénez (PX grape sun-dried in Andalusian sun to concentrate 400-500g/L sugar, oxidatively aged in oak bota under partial flor) — black coffee, caramel, raisin and molasses intensify each flavour of coffee religieuse; roasted black coffee directly mirroring the Trablit coffee extract perfuming the mousseline pastry cream, syrupy 450g/L sugar holding the two choux tiers and the fondant glaze.
Maury Grenat
Maury Grenat (Grenache Noir young-fortified on black schists of the Fenouillèdes in Roussillon) — cocoa, cherry, coffee and liquorice accompany the coffee religieuse with fruity roundness; cherry/cocoa edge prolonging the coffee fondant glaze and the coffee-buttercream ribbon between the two choux, liquorice echoing the noble bitterness of the Trablit coffee perfuming the pastry cream and fondant.