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Home-Made Menu & Minuty Wine

Create a menu worthy of even great restaurants. In the heart of the Château Minuty vineyard, Capucine Matton, a culinary art enthusiast, shares her colourful and gourmet recipes that are enhanced by the estate's gastronomic and essential wines.

Minuty best-sellers

Risotto with butternut squash and grilled pancetta recipe

Serves
4
A bowl of butternut squash and grilled pancetta risotto, next to it are two glasses of white wine and some leafy decorations plus an apple
Ingredients
  • 300g risotto rice (round)
  • 1.5L vegetable or poultry stock
  • 150g butternut squash, cubed
  • 4 slices of pancetta
  • 1 tbsp whole hazelnuts, shelled
  • 1 shallot
  • 100ml dry white wine
  • 1 tbsp double cream
  • 30g Parmesan, grated
  • 3 pinches of grated nutmeg
  • 4 heads of flat parsely
  • 4 tbsp olice oil
  • Salt and ground pepper

Preparation

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C. Peel the butternut squash and cut into cubes. Wrap them in greaseproof paper with 2 pinches of salt. Bake for 25 min.
  2. Fry the butternut squash cubes in a pan with the salt, pepper and nutmeg and 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
  3. Place the slices of pancetta on a baking tray covered with baking paper. Brown them for a few minutes in the oven.
  4. Chop the shallot. In a frying pan over low heat, brown it in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the rice. Pour in the white wine and stir until it is absorbed by the rice.
  5. Pour in 3 ladles of very hot stock. Stir regularly, adding stock as you go, until the rice is cooked.
  6. At the end of the cooking of the risotto, incorporate the fresh cream and the grated parmesan, without stopping to mix.
  7. Arrange the risotto in 4 pasta bowls. Sprinkle with the warmed butternut squash cubes, grilled pancetta, chopped roasted hazelnuts and chopped parsley.


For those who like it even richer: make a butternut cream and add it to the risotto at the end of the cooking time to make it even creamier.

Cuvée blanc et or - Château Minuty

IN THE GLASS: CUVÉE BLANC & OR - CHÂTEAU MINUTY

A Var IGP that enhances the creaminess of risotto

A subtle combination of SauvignonViognier and Rolle for a gastronomic white wine of great elegance. An atypical blend for a Var IGP which makes this cuvée less subtle than the other white wines of the appellation, which are already rare. It must be said that the Blanc & Or cuvée completes the range of the estate's signature wines, which are available in all three colours.


A true joy of freshness, this white wine knows how to prolong the pleasure in a lively and interminable finish. Round and well-balanced, its harmonious palate rivals even the creamiest of dishes, such as risotto. Seductive, intense notes of passion fruit provide just the right amount of liveliness and freshness on the palate. A simply exquisite touch of exoticism!

Chocolate and caramelised dried fruit tart recipe

Serves
4
Chocolate and caramelised dried fruit tart on a palte
Ingredients
For the tart pastry
  • 200g flour
  • 170g softened unsalted butter
  • 55g icing sugar
For the chocolate ganache
  • 170g dark chocolate
  • 30g milk chocolate
  • 150ml milk
  • 150ml single cream
  • 1 egg

Preparation

Prepare the dough

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  2. Cream together the butter and the icing sugar until soft and fluffy.
  3. Add the flour and mix again.
  4. Form a ball with your hands.
  5. Fill a 25 cm diameter stainless steel mould with the dough, using your hands as this dough is very crumbly!
  6. Blind bake the pie crust for 10 to 15 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown.

For the ganache

  1. Cut the chocolate into pieces.
  2. In a saucepan, bring the milk and cream to the boil.
  3. In a bowl, pour the boiling milk and cream over the chocolate pieces, half at a time.
  4. When the chocolate is completely melted, add the egg and mix in.
  5. Pour the ganache into the pastry and bake the tart for 15 to 20 minutes at 150°C.


For those who like it even richer: enjoy this tart sprinkled with dried fruit coated with homemade caramel and a cocoa streusel.

Cuvée rose et or - Château Minuty

IN THE GLASS: CUVÉE ROSE & OR - CHÂTEAU MINUTY

A gastronomic rosé that balances well with chocolate

Château Minuty's Rose et Or cuvée is a must try among the gastronomic rosé wines! It is the perfect accompaniment to the finest desserts. This vibrantly expressive rosé is a concentrate of gourmet aromas. Complex with a lot of freshness and finesse, it surprises with its notes of pink grapefruit and white peach.


You have here a Côtes de Provence rosé of a tender subtlety in a register as floral in the nose, as fruity in the mouth. Round and structured, but still fresh and easy to drink, it delicately balances the mellowness of the tartlet and allows the chocolate free rein to express itself.

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