cold cucumber soup pairing

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This is exactly where my head is at. Pass the bread!

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No pairing. Just let whatever came before linger in the glass if need be. Otherwise, leave it on its own.

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Well, it’s my first course, so I guess it will be paired with whatever I serve my friend while we are sitting around before dinner figuring out what we are watching. Likely a mosel kabinett if I can select one soon and get it in the fridge.

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I would go Rhys chard

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On the grounds that it is already wet, soup does not go with wine. On the other hand leaving the glasses of one’s guests empty is intolerable, which is why I rarely serve soup to guests.

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It is quite open-I wouldn’t die in a ditch over the matter but pedantry is fun-and it is genuinely a stretch to think that soup needs wine unless one really has to drink it with everything.

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@Mike_Evans 's suggestion (with the caveat that it’s a light one like a Federspiel) is excellent. A curveball suggestion: something light and bubbly like a quality dry Prosecco.

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As soon as I saw the Gruner suggestion upthread my brain locked onto that, and now I want to try this!

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well, we decided we wouldn’t probably finish even a single bottle and elected to just start with the wine I’d planned for the crab/corn salad, Huet CdB DS 2005. It went quite well with our starter - toasted sesame semolina bread, rubbed with garlic and topped with a white bean spread I made earlier in the day with lots of cooked onion, garlic, a bit of lemon, fennel and herbs (rosemary and fennel fronds) and a big slice of ripe heirloom tomato. The chenin went well with that and ok with the soup. It also worked with the salad.

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That sounds great to me, Maureen, and pretty much the way I’d have gone about it.

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I don’t think anyone is saying that. It was just a question of “if we are having wine with this soup, what wine would work better?”

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Chris, you’re missing the point. There are only three acceptable answers to wine pairing questions on Wine Berserkers:
1- Beer
2- Water
3- Esoteric white wine

:face_with_tongue:

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54

That should be auto-pinned to the top of every food-wine pairing thread. Except probably also add Champagne and cocktails to the list.

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You are correct and I am covered in rue. I take back my dry Prosecco recommendation. Substitute an Arunda Vivaldi from Alto Adige.

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56

sounds like a lovely meal

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