{"id":9337,"date":"2025-12-03T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:24:38","slug":"matching-food-wine-mac-of-the-week-tarte-tatin-and-barsac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/2025\/12\/matching-food-wine-mac-of-the-week-tarte-tatin-and-barsac\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching Food &amp; Wine &#8211; Mac of the Week: Tarte Tatin and Barsac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It always surprises me that so few chefs are into wine or are willing to fine tune their food to accommodate a special bottle.<br \/>Chris Wicks who used to be the chef\/proprietor of Bell\u2019s Diner in Bristol isn\u2019t one of them.<br \/>He\u2019s always appreciated wine and is more than happy to adjust his food to let it shine.<br \/>Normally I\u2019d say a tarte tatin needs a more intense dessert wine than a Barsac or Sauternes but having a half bottle of 2021 Chateau Coutet to hand Chris went easy on the caramelisation of the tatin so it was fresh and appley rather than richly toffeed.<br \/>If you\u2019re matching a tarte tatin with a heavier degree of caramelisation I\u2019d go for a liqueur muscat, a pommeau or even, as in this match of the week with a Pineau de Charentes<br \/>It definitely helped that the Barsac was a few years old and full of marmalade and apricot rather than fresh citrus flavours. You can buy that vintage on special offer from Laithwaites at the time of writing for \u00a321 a half bottle.<br \/>For other Sauternes pairings see The Best Food Pairings for Sauternes.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Fiona Beckett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always surprises me that so few chefs are into wine or are willing to fine tune their food to accommodate a special bottle.Chris Wicks who used to be the chef\/proprietor of Bell\u2019s Diner in Bristol isn\u2019t one of them.He\u2019s always appreciated wine and is more than happy to adjust his food to let it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat_press"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9338,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}