2024Wine and Food Pairing: Cote de Roses

Hey, there's wisconsinwineguy. I am back and I told you I need to find something to go with this rosé from the Côte de Roses from Gerard Bertrand. So I put together a quick simple Non-authentic type of salad nicoise, you know, so we're gonna have a french wine Let's not have something french with it. And it's a rosé they have not have something, you know Fresh and bright and light with it. So a my mock shift of a Salad nicoise, you know, so I have a kalamata olives, capers, tuna, wild-caught tuna tuna, onions Green olives, kalamata olives. I think I said that right and spinach. I've made a simple simple vinaigrette You know extra virgin olive oil a little bit of spicy mustard herbs that did oregano herbs salt and pepper Very simple to the point. So I'm going to give this a try and see it's going to go with the rosé Of Côte de Roses, which is a blend of Syrah, Grenache, and Saint-Saëns But I'm not going to tell you what I thought about the wine. Let me put a little bit more in here You're gonna have to watch the video To see what I thought about this wine and I'll make sure to attach that video to the bottom here So now let's refresh our palate with the wine again. Get rid of my corkscrew So the palate is now refreshed with the wine And let's dig into the salad and see we're gonna try to get a little bit of everything here You know, so a little bit of olives you know Some spinach capers. I see that in there some tuna. Let's not forget the onion Okay, we put a green olive in there a little bit of everything in this salad for the first bite All right. Here we go Let me tell you I outdid myself on this one It's so light so refreshing Have a little bit more and the vinaigrette It's just veiny, you know unmeasured Just simply tossed together In my little shaker jar and there you go But this is why you're here let's see if we have a good pairing of a simple mock salad nicoise And the coca-cola Wow When I told y'all I outdid myself on this one I just quickly put this together. It was green as I had Not knowing it was in the way that go together or not But just recalling memory of taste the things that I enjoyed. It's a nice fresh cold day The acidity comes through cleanses that palate feels nice it had enough Flavor to it That worked well Or different flavors here in this salad Then you have the the vinaigrette and the brine and the other soaked in I did great with that picked up the herb I mean just overall this was a double thumbs up type of pairing I'm, so proud of myself. You just know Oh, even the onion comes through towards the end Wow, there's so many flavors happening the regular so many flavors happening in my mouth right now This is fantastic. There you have it. You Wisconsin wine guy pairing the coque de roses 2023 coque de roses 2023 a blend of grenades and so and so raw With my mock salad nicoise. I'll make sure to put the recipe in the uh, description of what I did with this salad Okay, not true salad nicoise, but you get the idea When pairing your wine and your food Wow, i'm gonna dig into this and i'll see you next time ciao