The barbecue season is on! Friends, sun, a barbecue and a good glass of wine! This is our favourite combo for the upcoming season. We'll let you invite your friends, light the fire and we'll take care of suggesting our best wines to accompany your barbecue! How's that sound? Let's get started!
Rosé for the aperitif!
Impossible to miss the aperitif! To start off well, we recommend a rosé. With their fruitiness and minerality, rosés are perfect for the start of an aperitif. If you are planning an aperitif with a lot of flavour, you can opt for a light red rosé with more substance, which can reveal your grills, barbecues and marinades thanks to their spicy or peppery notes!
At Petites Caves we offer you a number of rosés that are perfect for the aperitif, discover them here!
Which wine to accompany a barbecue?
The aperitif is over, we can get down to business and start the barbecue! So, are you more of a merguez, chipolatas, beef, pork, meat or fish person? If it's too complicated, we advise you not to choose and to treat yourself with a small assortment! However, the choice of wine to accompany your barbecue will depend on the meat you are eating:
Which wine to drink with sausages (chipolatas, merguez)?
To accompany your sausages and merguez, opt for juicy wines with little tannin. Red wines made by carbonic maceration are perfect for this, thanks to their juiciness and fruitiness. We're thinking of gamays from Beaujolais, or fresh Grenache and Syrah vintages from Roussillon, for example.
Some fresh, fruity Cabernet Franc vintages from the Loire will also go well with chipolatas and/or merguez.
For something a little more original, try a vinous rosé from Languedoc, Gard or Bandol.
Which wine with chicken?
Here again, opt for red wines with little or no tannin, with a fairly fresh structure, such as pinots or gamays.
Some whites also go well with chicken. Greedy and/or structured whites. We're thinking of Chardonnays (from Beaujolais, for example) or whites from the Rhône Valley or Languedoc/Roussillon.
Which wine to drink with red meat (beef)?
In order to balance the rare structure of the beef and its particular cooking on the barbecue, it is necessary to start with more structured red wines, with grains of tannins present. Nice Syrah and Grenache from the Rhone Valley, for example, blends from Languedoc or nice wines from the South-West with a crisp fruitiness.
Which wine to serve with grilled fish?
To accompany sardines or white fish, we recommend dry white wines with tension and a nice bitterness on the finish. Sauvignon from the Loire or Muscadet wines will be perfect!
For fleshier, bluer fish(except sardines), go for whites with a rounder profile, with more chewiness. Chardonnays from Beaujolais, for example, or whites from Languedoc/Roussillon or the Rhône Valley. A nice Chenin from the Loire will also be perfect, especially with these recent very sunny vintages which bring a lot of structure to this Grape variety.
Discover our selection of wines perfect for a barbecue! Rosés, whites, reds, there is something for every taste and for every meat! Click here for more information!
You are now ready to organise the best barbecue of the summer and to vary the pleasures in terms of wines with your meats. The barbecue is the camping dish, the summer dish par excellence and we are not ready to do without it! You can choose between the traditional sausages, chipolatas, red and white meats but you can also try grilled fish! In order to choose the right wine for a barbecue, you have to choose it according to the meat you choose. In order to vary the pleasures even more, use marinades in order to test new flavours and new wines with your barbecue! Enjoy your meal!
