Fat Duck and Champagne

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Feb 23rd 2006 @ 10:30AM

Decanter has the ultimate food pairing. But the duck is the restaurant not the food.

The three Michelin starred restaurant, the Fat Duck in Berkshire, UK, played host to one of those food and wine matching events that only the ultra privileged seem to get to (moi, jealous?). The meal was in celebration of the release of the £220 a bottle Dom Perignon Rosé. Apparently some matches were not hugely successful with the 1996 vintage deadened by the oyster and passion fruit (oh, shame), and "several diners said they would have given anything for a glass of pinot noir with the pigeon"; its a hard life...

However the star of the evening was the 1978 - which some smart-alec thought had a touch of liquorice to the flavour matched with snail porridge, bacon and egg ice cream, and salmon in liquorice

So next time you fancy a slurp on your Dom Perignon '78 of a Thursday evening you know what to throw in the microwave.

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