For a starter or a main course that smells like autumn, let yourself be tempted by our recipe for wild mushroom tartlets. A succulent dish that our wine experts suggest pairing with Dom Pérignon Vintage Champagne!
VINTAGE CHAMPAGNES
Wild Mushroom Tartlets RECIPE
PREPARATION: 20 MINS | COOKING: 25 MINS | SERVES: 4
INGREDIENTS
- 1 ready-rolled puff pastry
- 2 chicken breasts
- 20g butter
- 250g mushrooms (depending on the season: cep, girolle, hedgehog, chanterelle, black trumpet…)
- salt
- pepper
- 4 eggs
- 2 tbsp crème fraîche
- 50ml chicken gravy
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Roll out the puff pastry on a work surface and use a cookie cutter to cut out rounds. Line the tartlet tins with the pastry discs and bake for 10 minutes.
- In the meantime, cut the chicken breasts into pieces. Fry them in the butter in a hot pan over a low heat for about 10 minutes.
- Add the mushrooms, chopped if necessary. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
- In a bowl, beat the whole eggs with the crème fraîche, chicken gravy, salt and pepper. Then add the chicken and mushroom mixture.
- Divide the mixture among the tartlet bases. Bake for about 25 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
the miraculous marriage of vintage Champagne and seasonal mushrooms
When the end of the season comes and the temperature drops, what better way to comfort yourself than with gourmet and tasty dishes? To warm up and treat yourself, we suggest wild mushroom tartlets. Perfect as a hot starter or as a main course, they are made of pure butter puff pastry, crispy and gourmet. This autumnal dish is filled with a creamy egg mixture, melting mushrooms and moist pieces of chicken. Chicken gravy adds even more flavour to this meal. For the mushrooms, any variety can be used depending on the season (cep, chanterelle, girolle, hedgehog, etc.). Although they are most abundant in autumn, they can be picked all year round.
Which wine to drink with wild mushroom tartlets? To accompany this dish, which honours gastronomy and local products, you might not systematically think of choosing Champagne as the choice of wine. However, this nectar, which is synonymous with celebration, can also be appreciated during a meal to enhance the rarest and most delicate dishes. To appreciate the wild mushrooms in our recipe, roundness and freshness are necessary to break the richness of the puff pastry and the creamy egg mixture. To avoid the flavours of the wine being overwhelmed by the wild nuances of this dish, a vintage Champagne with a more assertive character is ideal. It also pairs perfectly with the tender, delicate texture of the chicken. Moreover, this pairing is an ode to patience, which is essential both when picking the mushrooms and when making the vintage Champagne.
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VINTAGE DOM PÉRIGNON FOR A WHOLE MEAL
To accompany these wild mushroom tartlets, choose a wine with a lively character that will create a delicious contrast with the buttery notes of the puff pastry and the rich, gourmet nature of the filling. Vinatis invites you to test the pairing with Champagne, a good compromise between freshness and roundness. Our tasting committee experts suggest a vintage Champagne with character that will not be camouflaged by the pronounced flavours and gourmet texture of these tartlets, without overwhelming them.
PROPOSED CUVÉE: CHAMPAGNE DOM PÉRIGNON VINTAGE 2012
Offering a beautiful balance between tension, intensity and extreme contrasts, the Champagne Dom Pérignon Vintage 2012 reveals a complete and changing aromatic bouquet. We find floral (white flowers) and fruity (apricot and mirabelle plum) aromas evolving towards plant and mineral notes that blend with the flavours of the mushrooms. The nose is also marked by the freshness of rhubarb and mint, by the minerality of ash and by a touch of white pepper. On the palate, energy dominates. An immediate impression of roundness, this Champagne balances perfectly with the sweet and creamy mushroom and chicken filling. It then becomes bolder and livelier. As it reveals its effervescence, this Dom Pérignon Vintage surprises the taste buds with a pleasant tonic sensation breaking the richness of these wild mushroom tartlets. Not lacking in character with its balance of acidity and slight bitterness, this vintage Champagne wonderfully enhances the pronounced flavours of this dish.
Created from a blend of 52% Chardonnay and 48% Pinot Noir grape varities, this Dom Pérignon cuvée is the fruit of an exceptional year: 2012. It owes its singular olfactory landscape to the unpredictability of the seasons of that year with torrential rains, hailstorms and a summer heat wave, but also a mild and dry autumn. This Champagne owes its roundness on the first impression to the delicate touch of the Chardonnays. Offering a dense and firm structure, the Pinot Noir unfolds their intense fruitiness.
Perfect as an aperitif, a bottle of Dom Pérignon Vintage Champagne is also a gastronomic wine. It is the perfect accompaniment to an entire meal, such as turbot in sauce or truffle dishes. This effervescent wine also goes well with cheese, and can be enjoyed for dessert with walnut cakes, crème brûlée or a stone fruit-based mixture.
DOM PÉRIGNON OR THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION
A symbol of luxury and perfection, Dom Pérignon is one of the most famous Champagne Houses in the world. This Champagne brand offers a wide range of exceptional cuvées, always vintage. Indeed, the production of only vintage Champagnes is one of the requirements of this great house. Each cuvée is created exclusively from the harvest of a single year and only in the great years. In order to achieve the ideal aesthetic result, only the best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grape varieties from the estate are harvested. Each vintage Champagne has its own identity by reinterpreting the unique character of each year, while retaining the distinctive Dom Pérignon style.
THE DELICACY OF A VINTAGE CHAMPAGNE
Rare and highly sought-after, vintage Champagne is one of the world's most prized wines. Embodying excellence and prestige, this type of cuvée, unlike other Champagnes, is made from wines from a single year. The winemakers only choose to vintage their production in exceptional years. Indeed, it is at the moment of vinifying the grapes, after the harvest, that they decide if the year was good enough to vintage their cuvée or not. A great year allows them to create an exceptional blend, resulting in a Champagne with great ageing potential that can improve over time. While most Champagne houses produce non-vintage Champagnes called Brut Sans Année, or BSA, the Dom Pérignon brand is exclusively dedicated to the production of vintage Champagnes: Champagne Vintage, Champagne Plénitudes and Champagne Rosé.
Generally speaking, vintage cuvées are powerful wines that require more time in the cellar. In fact, vintage Champagnes must be aged for at least three years from the time of bottling. However, in reality, this maturing phase is often longer. When tasted, a vintage Champagne often reveals a complex aromatic palette, but also a remarkable delicacy of the bubbles, a sign that the cuvée has spent several years ageing in the cellar.
To bring a touch of luxury and prestige to various occasions, do not hesitate to choose Dom Pérignon Vintage Champagnes. Exceptional vintages to be found on Vinatis!
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