Mixed Drinks with Wine and Sekt

• 300 Gramm geschälte Kartoffeln
• 100 Gramm Wurzelgemüse
• 100 Gramm Waldpilze
• 1 ganze Zwiebel
• 1 ganze Knoblauchzehe
• 30 Gramm Speckwürfel
• 40 Gramm Margarine
• 750 ml Brühe
• 200 ml Sahne
• 1 Zweig Thymian
• nach Belieben Petersilie, Butter, Salz, Pfeffer, Muskat

Clean, wash and finely dice the root vegetables. Finely dice the onion and garlic clove and finely chop the thyme. Sauté the diced bacon with the margarine in a pan until lightly browned, add the diced onion, garlic, root vegetables and thyme. Sauté, add the stock and cook for 2 minutes.

Finely grate the potatoes, add to the soup and cook for a further 5 minutes, add the cream, season and flavour. Clean, wash and chop the mushrooms and sauté in a pan with butter. Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with chopped parsley and pour over the soup when serving.

• Riesling (trocken)
• Riesling (halbtrocken & feinherb)

• 3 Stück Schalotten
• 500 Gramm Blumenkohl
• 20 Gramm Butter
• 1 TL Fenchelsaat
• 50 ml Weißwein
• 800 ml Gemüsebrühe
• 100 ml Schlagsahne
• 1 Prise Zucker
• nach Geschmack Salz & Pfeffer

Peel the shallots and cut into slices.

Clean and chop the cauliflower.

Melt the butter in a pan, sauté the shallots with the fennel seeds over a medium heat for 3 minutes until colourless. Add the cauliflower, sauté for 2 minutes, season with salt and sugar.

<p>Deglaze with white wine, bring to the boil and top up with vegetable stock and whipping cream. Simmer over a low heat for 20 minutes.

Blend with a hand blender, adding stock if necessary to reach the desired consistency.

Serve drizzled with a few drops of olive oil.

• Silvaner (trocken)

• 8 Stück Schweinemedaillons
• 500 Gramm Bandnudeln
• 2 große Äpfel
• 200 ml Sahne
• 10 Blättchen frischer Salbei
• 4 Zweige frischer Thymian
• nach Geschmack Zucker
• 3 EL Calvados
• 1 EL Öl
• zum Abschmecken Salz & Pfeffer

Slightly pepper and salt the medallions on both sides. Pluck the thyme, cut the sage into fine strips and roll the medallions in the herbs. Fry the meat in a pan with a little oil on both sides, not too hot, until it starts to colour. Remove from the pan and place on a preheated tray in the oven at 100 °C until cooked through.

Cook the tagliatelle al dente and keep warm.

In the meantime, peel the apples and cut into slices approx. 1.5 cm wide. Reheat the meat pan and add the apple slices. After about half a minute, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of sugar over the apples and allow them to caramelise. After a minute, deglaze the apple slices with a generous dash of Calvados and flambé. Add the cream and flavour with salt and pepper.

Remove the fillet from the oven. Add the meat juices from the oven dish to the sauce and serve the fillets with the tagliatelle, apple slices and Calvados apple sauce.

• Riesling (trocken)

• 1 ganzes Huhn
• 0,4 Liter Riesling
• 0,2 Liter Sahne
• 1 kl. Glas Cognac
• 2 Stück Schalotten
• 1 Stück Knoblauchzehe
• 1 Stück Eigelb
• 1/2 Bund Petersilie
• 1 EL Mehl
• 50 Gramm Butter
• 1 EL Olivenöl
• nach Belieben Salz & Pfeffer

Carve the chicken. Heat approx. 50 g butter with 2 tbsp olive oil in a large frying pan and fry the chicken pieces until light brown (without the lid). Season lightly with salt.

Finely chop the shallots, peel and finely chop the garlic. Chop the parsley and add everything to the meat. Sauté briefly with the pan closed. Pour the cognac over the meat and light it (flambé). Deglaze with 1/3 litre of Riesling and leave to simmer for half an hour over a low heat. If necessary, add a little more wine and simmer for a further 10 minutes.

Remove the chicken pieces and keep warm for a short time. Mix 1 tbsp of flour with 1 egg yolk and the cream and whisk into the sauce. Flavour with salt and pepper. Return the chicken pieces to the pan. Serve immediately.

This goes well with tagliatelle.

Variant:Fry 150 g fresh mushrooms in 50 g butter and add.

• Riesling (trocken)