2012 Collines du Bourdic-Chardonnay, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Pays D'Oc IGP

Carpaccio of red tuna

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Ingredients (4 persons):

• 350 gr (very) fresh red tuna
• 1 orange
• 1 tbs of balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbs of olive oil
• 2 tbs of fleur de sel
• 2 tbs of red peppercorns

Preparation:

1. Place the fish in the freezer during +/- 1h to facilitate the cutting.
2. Press the orange and keep the juice. Mix the oil with the orange juice in a bowl and then add the balsamic vinegar.
3. Grind the fleur de sel and the red peppercorns with a mortar.
4. Before service, take the fish from the freezer and cut into wafer-thin slices with a well-sharpened knife. Place these slices adjacent on the plates.
5. Suffuse with the mixture of orange juice and sprinkle with the ground fleur de sel and red peppercorns.
6. Serve with one or more slices of toasted bread.

Chardonnay is an early variety that gives excellent quality wines on a regular basis from one year to the next. With a very aromatic nose and fat taste in the mouth, Chardonnay can find its way throughout the whole meal: aperitif to cheese . This is a variety that gives a fine wine, fruity and aromatic.

The cooperative group of Bourdic Hills is a structure that boasts two poles and develops skills activity on bulk and packaged wine with the same engagement in this activity: production, vinification and marketing of quality wines at a reasonable price. By its philosophy and developed bilateral trade, the cellar Collines de Bourdic cannot be considered as an « ordinary » cooperative winery.

Thus, it is up to the oenoligists to apply to this noble grain these extraction methods that give the quintessential wines of the Bourdic range: concentration, complexity and aromatic power.