Wine pairing stumper...

I'll make this as brief as possible. For dinner tonight, I'm having 6 people over for their choice of braised chicken or veal cannelloni. The cannelloni will be stuffed with ricotta, spinach, thyme, the shredded braised meats, and mushrooms (morels in the case of the veal, and porcinis for the chicken).

This will be served with a cream sauce made from the strained braising liquids, the mushroom stock (from reconsituting the dried mushrooms), roux, and heavy cream.

My initial thoughts were Burgundy, or given all the cream which begs for acidity, a red Sancerre or NZ PN.

However, I haven't discounted the possibility that some whites would work here too.

What do you think? I'm looking for ideas!

Chris

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Chris Sprague
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Michael Pronay

I think that, while a white wine might work with these dishes, they do fairly cry out for a red of the sort you're thinking of. A powerful Cru Beaujolais might be good, too, especially an '05.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

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While I could very well side both with Mark (Beaujolais was my first thought) and Dale (I adore white Bourgogne) I would say that this is truly a win-win situation - the dishes seem extremely wine friendly, nopt a false note anywhere. However, what with canelloni, ricotta, porcini ... why not a Barbera d'Asti as one choice?

Cheers

Nils

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren
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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

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