Choose your dinner based on the wine selected by the sommelier
Québec, Tuesday February 16, 2021 - The Bleu Marine restaurant, which opened in 2019 in the premises of the late Moine Échanson, is taking advantage of the pandemic to find its customers passionate about good wines in an original and tasty formula of Prêt-à -tune, where the meal revolves around the choice of beverage, and not the other way around. Through a careful selection of products made by the two sommeliers at the head of the establishment, customers now have access to a new way of enjoying one of the joys of the restaurant industry: personalized service for an experience. unique taste at each visit (see order here). The two acolytes, Yann Barrette-Bouchard and Claudine Déry, share a great love for good wines and wish to offer customers to live the agreement, without going through upstream research work, thanks to their reservation system of the service of Ready-to-match Navy Blue.
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This new formula is available as follows: for each wine purchased, a recipe card and an unusual food item are provided to create a perfect accord in the mouth during tasting. In fact, since the regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages by restaurant owners was relaxed a few weeks ago, Bleu Marine can offer its bottles, accompanied at least by food processed on site. This offer is available by pick-up at the restaurant when the kitchen is operational. As of now, the public can unearth 15 privately imported wines on the Bleu Marine website, offered elsewhere at exceptional value for money, each associated with a specific recipe. Each wine, carefully selected to achieve an original and typical pairing of the region represented, is offered with a recipe card that includes the ingredients to buy in the grocery store as well as the procedure to follow, and especially mentions the tasting notes of the wine with the meal. , accompanied by the presentation of the vineyard. To add fantasy to the meal, each wine and recipe combo is completed with an unusual food provided, essential to the execution of the dish, chosen specifically because it is difficult to find or because it requires specific knowledge. during its preparation. Finally, on the card, a QR code redirects consumers to a pictorial step-by-step, where the steps that lead to the creation of the dish are listed in order. In addition to this initial selection of around fifteen products, the Ready-to-Match will periodically feature featured combos, which will come with the full box of necessary ingredients already measured and ready to be cooked.
Among the wines offered in ready-to-match, which all cost between $ 25 and $ 42, we find in particular the Piagè 2017, a Barbera d'Asti from Cascina La Ghersa, Le Bruit des Vagues 2018 by Julien Pilon and the La Ferma 2018, a langhe by Pasquale Pelissero, to name a few. The suggested pairings fascinate as much as the wines please: to accompany the Ficelle 2019, a soave from the Alpone valley in Veneto, the sommeliers offer a risotto with basil and peach.
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Since its opening in 2019, Bleu Marine has slipped into the list of welcoming addresses where it is good to drink in Quebec. Located in the effervescence of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste district, the restaurant, which is located on Saint-Jean Street, is the gourmet project of two experienced sommeliers, which offers an exemplary wine list that perfectly matches the flavors of a menu evolving with the seasons. Yann, who studied at the late Panache at Auberge Saint-Antoine before moving to the Saint-Amour restaurant then to the Ritz-Carlton, can count on the versatility of his partner Claudine, who trained at the University of wine of Suze-la-Rousse in France and also accumulating the great addresses in its course. Since the unexpected circumstances of 2020, the latter has temporarily put aside the sommelier to take over the stoves of the restaurant, to the delight of foodies in the Capitale-Nationale.