Roquefort cheese
- sheep milk
- blue
- Drink
- SauternesThe classic match: botrytis sweetness against the salt and the sheep's-milk fat. Nothing else tames a Roquefort so completely.
- Driving
- Assam, strong and unmilkedTannin stands in for the wine's structure; the malt sweetness echoes the Sauternes.
- Eat with
- Walnut bread, and a pearWalnut is the standing partner to a blue, and the pear's sweetness does the same job as the Sauternes.
A classic pairing — settled enough that it belongs to the region.