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Nicoise salad is one of the emblematic dishes of the South of France and obviously of the city of Nice. So, it is often popular during the summer period. You don't know which wine to choose with the Nicoise salad ? Follow the advice of food and wine pairings from Beaux-Vins : your reference blog on wine…

In association with the cooking site Nini's frichtis, here we offer you a new wine pairing and a refreshing Nicoise salad recipe !

The challenges of wine and Nicoise salad pairing

The Nicoise salad is a dish as emblematic as it is revisited. Indeed, this traditional culinary specialty does not have a precise recipe, but adapts according to tastes and seasons.

For the record, the Nicoise salad is originally a poor man's salad made up of the few ingredients he had on hand : tomatoes, some anchovies and olive oil. The additional ingredients are contemporary interpretations of this original recipe..

For this food and wine pairing, the main challenge of course lies in the presence of anchovies which bring their aromatic power to the salad. The different variants – for example the Nicoise salad with potatoes – will in fact bring us some slight differences in the choice of wine to favor.

What wine pairings with our recipe of Nicoise salad ?

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For this Nicoise salad, we have chosen a fairly traditional variant of the recipe. Here, you will not find the potatoes that had been proposed in Auguste Escoffier's recipe.

Some great wine ideas to taste

Fresh and particularly fragrant, the Nicoise salad claims to be tasted with wines of the same ilk.

Bitterness of olives, salty note of anchovies, vegetable flavors… These elements together make it possible to orient one's choice on young wines, with a beautiful freshness and with a well-structured bouquet.

For this summer Nicoise salad recipe, you might want to enjoy the freshness of a white wine or a rosé wine And you are right !

Like any good regional specialty, we can easily be tempted by a local pairing.

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So, you can enjoy discovering the white wines of Provence. Appreciated by connoisseurs for their typicality, they are often round and fruity with a nice freshness that supports the whole. Discreet appellation for this wine color, the white wines from Bandol nevertheless offer a remarkable treasure of freshness. You could also take the opportunity to discover the white wines of Cassis or Bellet !

The Nicoise salad is also wonderful with rosé wines from the Provence region. However, please me and choose it carefully. You can rediscover the wines of Provence with the same appellations as in white : rosé wines of Cassis, from Bandol or Bellet. You can also go further north with the rosé wines from the Rhône Valley with the Luberon or Tavel appellations.

Access to the recipe (in French)

My selection

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For my part, this Nicoise salad recipe was a great opportunity to uncork a very fine wine from the Alpilles. This is the cuvée Breath of Aeole from the Eole Estate.

This rosé wine organic and without added sulphites delivers a slightly orange tint. In the glass, this rosé wine reveals subtle aromas of red berries and white peach. It develops a beautiful freshness balanced by this fruity. This wine is a blend of Grenache majority and Syrah, of Cournoise and Cinsault.

The freshness of this wine balances the powerful aromas of the anchovies and the salty flavor of the latter..

To avoid !

For this Nicoise salad recipe, we forget the existence of red wines… Tannins, even light, do not mix well with the aromas and character of our preparation.

Jean-Nicolas Mouretin

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