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Easy Wine and Cheese for Relaxed Entertaining

Easy Wine Cheese Entertaining Chateau la Calisse Wine Food Pairing

Sometimes in life, you just need to hit the “easy” button and lean towards relaxed entertaining. There is nothing complicated about an evening of wine, cheese and charcuterie. And, this seemed like the perfect moment. It was the eve of a minor surgical procedure that was to keep me off my feet for four to six weeks. What was I to do? Naturally, I invited friends over for a meal-worthy charcuterie board to chill, try out some wine … and to keep my mind off the knife. What would you have done?

Here is a recipe for chilling with friends. We created a charcuterie board with a variety of cheeses, a selection of cured meats, nuts and more. The wine of the evening was a 2017 Patricia Ortelli Blanc from Château la Calisse. It was highly recommended to me as the perfect wine to accompany a charcuterie board, although I honestly didn’t expect it (a white wine) to hold up to some of the more intense items on the board.

Winery:
Château la Calisse
Route D560
83670 Ponteves
Telephone : +33(0)4 94 77 24 71

Cuvée: Patricia Ortelli – White (2017)
Appellation: Coteaux Varois en Provence
Grape Varieties: 70% Rolle and 30% Grenache blanc
Alcohol: 14.5%
Average Retail Price: U.S. $35.00

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Susan Newman Manfull

It was love at first sight when my family and I arrived in the charming village of Lourmarin for a short vacation, nearly 20 years ago. We returned home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the next thing I knew, we were planning a much longer sojourn in that village and making arrangements to enroll our daughter in the local school there. That led to buying a maison de village— actually two, then a courtyard, a parking spot, and a bergerie— in our favourite Provençal village where we (readily) adopted that certain joie de vivre, established dear friendships, and, to this day, endeavour to blend in with the crowd at Café Gaby.

We no longer own property in Lourmarin, but we continue to hang our hats there frequently and gather fodder for our souls and The Modern Trobaors and Provence WineZine. There is never a shortage.

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