Which wine to drink with snails?
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Which wine to drink with snails?

What food and wine pairing with snails? Snails are very often served during the period of end of the year parties (with the foie grasthe smoked salmonor the oysters and other seafood) as an aperitif or starter.

Snails can be prepared in many different ways: served in their shells with parsley butter, in a sauce in a casserole dish or in a puff pastry. If these gastropods with shells do not always meand with unanimity, we give you our Advice on food and wine pairing in Alsace to bandter appreciate them. The choice of wine will sublimate your snails and delight your taste buds and those of your guests!

Which wine to serve with snails with parsley butter and garlic?

The snails with parsley butter and garlic are an emblematic figure of French gastronomy. It is traditionally prepared with Burgundy snails offering superb tasting moments for wine lovers.

Because of the richness of the sauce and the strong taste of the parsley combined with the garlic, the dry and young white wines will counterbalance this dish and create a superb match. The riesling from the Exception range, a resolutely gastronomic wine, will be a very good ally. In order to enhance the warm and spicy side of the parsley, you can also opt for a Pinot Noir Exception, which will marry all the more with the snails of Burgundy.

Which wine to serve with snail puff pastry?

For those who are not too fond of snails in their shells, it is also possible to enjoy them in puff pastry or as appandizers. Generous and tasty, the puff pastry blends ideally with the fleshy texture and chewiness of the snail.

To bring freshness to this agreement, you can accompany it with a white wine like riesling or a sparkling wine like a Crémant d'Alsace BrutThe bubbles of our Crémant Brut Premium will bring out the aromas of this dish.

What wine to serve with snails in cassolandtes?

The snails in cassolandtes dry white wine, rather young, riesling type. You can then choose to serve the riesling des Chasseurs de Lune or the riesling Exception. For red wine lovers, and if the sauce accompanying the snails is suitable, the Pinot Noir, light red wine, is the right wine to choose as an alternative to white wine.

Discover our other food and wine pairing ideas here.

Enjoy your snails with our riesling, Pinot Noir and Cremant of Alsace!

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Pinot Noir Rosé d'Exception
AOC Alsace
Pinot Noir
AOC Alsace
Riesling Grand Cru Kaefferkopf
AOC Crémant d'Alsace