Sipping Into Fall: Recipes, Pairings, Tips and More...

Join sommelier Erin as she walks you through her Fall 2024 Pairing Inspiration Guide. In this episode, Erin shares some of her favorite apple-themed recipes, including Baked Brie with apples and walnuts, Apple Crepes, Roasted Pork with apples, and more. She also provides tips on wine and cider pairings and offers practical advice on how to read Calvados labels. Whether you're hosting a cozy gathering or planning a Sunday dinner, Erin's guide has all the delicious pairings and seasonal cocktails you need. Don't forget to grab your free copy of the guide through the link below.

02:08 Fall Pairing Inspiration Guide Walk Through
03:12 Bake Brie with Apples, Walnuts and Maple Syrup
05:49 Pairing Tips
08:13 Apple Crepes
10:59 Calvados Butter Sauce
12:47 Baked Apples
14:09 Roast Pork with Apples
17:00 Roast Chicken with Apples
18:52 Cocktails

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With cooler weather and cozy gatherings on the horizon. Now that we're officially in September. I've put together a special phone pairing inspiration guide. And inside I have. Some of my favorite delicious recipes, perfect pairings, some seasonal cocktails and tips on how to read the label on bottles of Calvin dose. And in today's episode, I'm going to be walking through each recipe in the guide, along with some extra tips and hints that I have for you for full entertaining. so if you're ready to dive into this fall's inspiration pairing guide with me, let's get started and dive right into today's episode. Hi everyone. And welcome to the wine shop talk. I'm your host, smelly Erin Rosar and I am so happy that you're here with me today. If we haven't met before, it's lovely to have you here. And if we have welcome back now, for those of you who are new, you should know that I've been a professional smile for over 20 years now. And it's my passion and my privilege to make learning about wine. Not only fun and easy, but also practical. I want to make sure that you leave every single episode with some real life practical tips that you're going to be able to use, to find wines that you're going to love and enjoy and be able to share with family and friends. I want you to think of me as your very own practical Somalia. And on that note, today's episode is filled with my personal practical tips. We're going to be walking through my fall 2024 pairing inspiration guide. And each one of the recipes that I've included, and these are some of my personal favorite recipes. I'm also going to give you tips on pairings and some options. So my hope is that by the end of today's episode, your mouth is going to be watering about all the delicious foods and pairings that you're going to be able to create. And you're going to be starting to write your shopping list. Now, if you don't have a copy yet of the fall pairing inspiration guide, I have put a link in the show notes below. It's a free guide. You're just going to fill out your email address. So I know you're not a bot and then the guide is instantly yours. Super easy to grab the guide does check the link in the show notes below. So, if you do want to follow along, you can print it off, make notes, or just listen along and you can make notes as we go. Let's take a look at the guide. So if you do have a copy, you're going to open up. I have 16 pages of recipes and pairings for you inside this guide. And the recipes that I have included, or a baked Brie with apples, walnuts and maple syrup. Apple crepes a recipe for a delicious Calvin dose butter sauce. That once you make it, you're going to wonder how you ever lived without it. Classic recipe for baked apples, roast chicken with apples, classic roast pork with apples. And then I have three recipes for Calvin dose cocktails, if you're not sure what Calvin dose is. It's a French Brandy made from apples comes from Northern France. Enormity. It is delicious. You can tell that I got on a bit of an apple themed kick here. I love apples, but definitely in the fall and the way the house smells. Anytime you cook with anything, apple. So. It became a bit of a theme. So this fall inspiration guide is all about an apple theme and how delicious they are and what delicious pairings we can do with them. Let's dive in. And the first recipe that I've given you is for a classic bait, Bree has cooked apples, walnuts and maple syrup. This is so easy if you have not made baked Brie for a while, or you just think it's a fussy dish and telling you it is definitely a dish that seems a much fancier than it is. It is so easy. And it's one of those things that if you just keep a wheel of Brie in your cheese drawer, anytime you think people might be Coming over, you can quickly add toppings of your choice and some nice bread or crackers. And all of a sudden you are the hostess with the mostess, as they say. This is a really, really easy. Recipe to make. Now it does call for one medium apple and in the recipe calling for granny Smith or honey crisp. Whatever apples are your favorites. You can use. You could also add in pairs here, if you are a pair lover, delicious pairs in the fall. So if you'd like to substitute any of these recipes with apples, with pears, you can definitely do that as well. And this will be yours, thinly sliced into chunks. I like to make sure the apples are in bite sized pieces so that when you do scoop some cheese out, you're going to, it's going to be easy for the apple slices to melt into that. walnuts up to you. How many use, if you're not a Walnut fan, you could substitute these with pea cans. Instead if you'd like a bit of a sweeter nut maple syrup, I've two to three tablespoons. I find this enough, but if you'd like a little sweeter could definitely add more. Some cinnamon nutmeg, a bit of butter and you're ready to go. Now, I like to add a little bit of Rosemary on top, just to bring in a bit of that savory flavor, but if you're not into adding some fresh herbs on top, you don't need to do that. You can just go with the sweet flavors of those nuts. You could also use candy nuts on top. If you wanted to really make it a bit more of a dessert dish as well. Now. It is so easy. You're going to cook the apple mixture on the stove. So dice up the apples, then basically put them in a skillet with some butter and warm them up in the pan. And then you'll be able to put that mixture on top of the breed before you put that all in the oven together so that it could cook together into gooey deliciousness. You are going to. Love this, and then you can serve it with crackers or by gets slices. You can also serve with dried apple chips. If you'd like to really carry that theme through, there's some delicious sort of. Apple crisps, if you will. And that's a really fun thing to do. If you'd like to add some color to the dish, dried cranberries can work here as well. You can put those in. So the sky's the limit. You can definitely personalize this. But it is so, so yummy. And in regards to pairings, here's where you can have some fun. Obviously apple cider is going to be delicious. Now, if you are an apple cider fan already like me, fantastic. If you're a person who's tried apple cider and you've just thought it's too sweet, or it's not for you. I'm going to put a link in the show notes below to a blog that I wrote about just breaking down the different styles of cider cider. Sometimes much like Rosar can get lumped into people thinking that it's one way cider has so many different styles from dry. Right off dry. Sweet. So it's really about knowing how to read the label to make sure you get a style that you'd like, but a crisp after I cider with this is so yummy and definitely peace to resist songs if you will. But a cider is delicious. You could also make one of the Calvin dos cocktails that we're going to be talking about sparkling wine. So here you can do a little bit of champagne or CRO Monta. Into Alsace. You're going to look for a fuller style of bubbles. Pramada Alsace is delicious. If you're looking for a still wine. You're going to want to pull out a wine with some apple flavor. So here you can go with a Chardonnay or peanut block or peanut GRI would be fantastic as well. So you definitely have some options here of what to pair with it, but your favorite full bodied creamy buttery Chardonnay is also going to be full on delicious. And the dish will really help to pull out the apple flavor in the wine. And these pairings that I'm talking about really are going to follow through with all of the different pairings that we're talking about today. If you do also want to do something a little sweeter, You can make your own signature cocktail, if you want to, with a little bit of sweet cider and some Perseco. So if you want to have something bubbly, but you're not full on into cider, then you can take some cider in with some Prosecco and make a bit of an apple fizz. Drink, you can also take some iced cider, which is made from frozen iced apples, much like we make ice wine and it is delicious. And if, again, that seems still a little too sweet, then add some to Perseco and you're going to have a stunning apple off dry cocktail and it is delicious. So there you have some options in regards to the big Bri. And apples, but those pairings are really going to follow us through this guide. Now, the next recipe I have for you is for apple crepes, and you can have this for dinner, breakfast, dessert, your choice. My family loves grapes. They are our Christmas morning breakfast. They are a treat. We love to have them and sit down and the whipped cream and all of the toppings. But here you can do this with a delicious apple mixture. Again, you're going to, um, find the apples or pears and, or a mix of both and create that in the skillet. So you're going to have this warm feeling. There is a recipe. If you don't have your own classic crepe recipe, I have included a recipe in. There for you, but the filling is really, really easy, super similar to the topping that we use for the big Bri, but here you're going to have just a bit more brown sugar into the mix and some lemon juice, just to add a little bit of acid into the mix, but you're going to make this delicious spiced, apple. Filling. If you will figure crepes. You're going to keep that all warm. It can have some caramel sauce on the table or an, and or some maple syrup, some whipped cream, whatever you would like powdered sugar on top. Or SIM cinnamon sugar, all delicious options. And then this to me is one of those things you put on the table and you put out the crepes and you put out the filling. People can just make their own. And some people. Like to keep them very civilized. Other people just love to make it a bit like a case of DM. One fold over. It's really going to be up to you can have crepes, deconstructed, and just keep everything in a bowl. Cut it all up. How ever you'd like to, but so simple and delicious. The house smells amazing when you make the warm apples on the skillet before you put them in the crepes. So yummy and in regards to pairings were exactly the same styles of pairings as we had when we had the brief. So we're talking about the different styles of cider now because of the brown sugar inside these crepes, a little bit of off dry style, something not too dry. Delicious. You were champagne. CaroMont. Amato Alsace. If you're looking for something a little bubbly, Your favorite creamy Chardonnay, Pinot GRI, or peanut blog, all delicious, but this siders so yummy. And if you're looking for something pretty than a Rosar off dry cider is so pretty here. If you're looking to bring a little color to your table. That's a great option as well, but just rich and delicious apple crepes. Again, you can have them as a breakfast lunch, a meal, dinner of midnight snack, so yummy, and the crepes you can definitely make ahead and make extra. So then you can just pull them out anytime you'd like to. So super handy, delicious and so good. And again, you can put in some pears, should you have some, and they're a favorite. Now let's talk about the Calvin dose butter sauce. So Califia dose is an apple Brandy coming from Norma D the north part of France. And it is delicious. So if you find that brand, he's just a little too strong, then Calvin does maybe the Brandy for you, because as soon as you put it in the sifter class, Definitely it is a strong spirit. You're going to have that warming sensation in your throat, but as soon as you pick up your sifter glass, you're going to smell the beautiful aromas of apples coming off of the Calvin dose. Calvos butter sauce is so delicious and it's going to be that extra level of taking a dessert up a notch. If you will, here, you can put it on top of the crepes, the baked apples, simple pound cake. anything that you have that could just do with a bit of a sweet cream sauce over top of it, this is divine, and it's so easy to make. You're just going to need a quarter cup of your. Favorite Calvin dose a quarter cup of brown sugar, a quarter cup of heavy cream. Touch of vanilla, a little bit, your salt and half a cup of unsalted butter preferably if you have salted it's okay. Just don't put any extra salt in the recipe. And you're just literally going to let this all melt and dissolve together. As it comes to a soft boil is going to burn the alcohol off. You're going to get this lovely apple creamy, brown sugar toasted flavor coming through this sauce. And it is. So, so yummy. This is a sauce definitely for fall. That once you try it, you're going to just find great reasons to put on to anything you could dip in simple vanilla cookies. If you wanted to dip in some biscotti, if you want to do it is so yummy and perfect for fall. So that is a Calvin dose. Butter's us. The next recipe I have added into the guide are classic baked apples. Whether you make them in the oven, the microwave, or super easy in the air fryer, these make your house smell so good. And if you find yourself with a lot of people over and you weren't expecting them, You probably have some apples in the house. All you need are some apples, some cranberries, some nuts, some brown sugar and some butter. And you're good to go. Ideally, you have a little bit of apple juice, or an apple cider, just a little bit of sauce on top you can top with some whipped cream, the Calvin dose butter sauce, caramel sauce. Whatever you would like so yummy. And in regards to pairings, these are sweet. So your choice on pairing. But generally, I like to do something like a nice CaroMont Alsace again, that nice. Effervescent some bubbly to go with it. It really pulls the bubbles out. But if you are looking to do to really pull the apple, you can definitely do ciders here. Pick your favorite. And beautiful Chardonnay or the peanut GRI, peanut Blanca, or my favorites. And for something special, if you are looking for something sweet beside this, then you could do just a little glass of an ice cider, or of course, a glass of your favorite Calvados, just yummy, but baked apples. One of those things that you haven't had for a while, you're going to wonder why you're not making them more, so delicious and easy. Now the next two recipes are have our savory Sunday dinner recipes, let's call them. And the first one let's talk about is a roast pork with apples. I love to do a roast pork. It is a fall meal, but in the summer we'll do sort of pulled pork more sweeter style, but in the fall to just do some design mustard, brown sugar, Some fresh Rosemary, a little bit of time. Cinnamon, nutmeg. And some garlic and it just is so delicious makes the house smell so good. And of course you need some apples. You're going to cook this roast pork on top of a bed of apples and onions. I like to do a ratio of about three to one apples to onion. That'll be up to you, but you're just going to layer the pan on the bottom with the apples and onions, put the pork on top and it is slow cooked and it is delicious. So if you're looking for us super easy dinner, That is delicious and you can serve with your favorite mashed potatoes, green beans, whatever vegetables are your favorite roasted fall carrots. There's so many wonderful vegetables this time of year, you could also do roasted potatoes, turnips your choice, but this is so easy. You're just going to put it in the oven and let it cook away and just delicious, easy. It makes the house smell so good. Now for this one, I classically generally paired up my house with an Alsatian peanut Greek. That's my favorite pairing to do with this just has the peanut GRI has the weight to go along with the dish and all the different flavors. and I just love it. Do full body Chardonnay here as well because of the sweetness in the fall. If you wanted to pull out of You could do that here as well, or, um, Marsanne or Roussanne as well, if you're looking for something different. So a white blend from the south of France, you could pull in here as well. But traditionally, I like to go with wines that are made in climates are a little bit cooler generally. Now you may be thinking about what about red wines with this. It's going to be up to you. Think about flavors that would compliment with apples. So apples and cherries, apples, and red berries. So I, you could definitely do. Uh, Grenache or piano guar, just watch your big red wines that don't have a synergy with apples to them where you have more of those tannins or smokiness or spice. So you're going to look for more of a fruit forward red style when pairing with anything with apples, but ideally a white is going to have that synergetic flavor of the apples or pear flavor coming through and would be my preference in regards to pairing. But if you are looking to do a red, then you could definitely pull out more of a fruit forward reds. Uh, my favorite would be more of a new rolled P and. Awarr style. Or, uh, Grenache would be my go-to reds for these ones. And then I have a classic roast chicken with apples, much like the roast pork roast, the, when you do a roast chicken, the whole house smells amazing. And it just seems like fall. And it's so cozy. And especially if you're doing a Sunday dinner and here, you're just going to have, but two to three apples of your choice, I put down honey crisp and granny Smith. if possible, I do like to use a couple of different styles of apples when I'm cooking, try find one that's tartar and one sweeter so that the flavors melt together, but use whatever you have available. And this is just a simple classic roast chicken. With olive oil, butter, fresh herbs, a little bit of cinnamon and nutmeg just to bring in those fall flavors and you're going to actually stuff the chicken with some of the apples and the onions. I look to cook the apples and onions around it as well. But if you put some on the inside, it is just so yummy. The apple flavors are really going to come through. And again, the pairings for this one, you're looking at a beautiful glass of CaroMont or champagne. If you're looking for something bubbly, The Pinot GRI, Pinot Blanc. Or your favorite Chardonnay are perfect here. And again, if you're looking for reds, especially with chicken, you're going to look for low tannins. because there's no fat in the chicken, if you will. So here you're looking at a piano, guar or Grenache again would be my go-to pairings for this one, but personally I would go with one of the whites or even a lovely dry cider here would be incredible. So something to try for sure. I hope that your mouth is watering and you're starting to think about what you're going to be cooking over the next few days, or maybe the next time you get everyone together, your Sunday dinner this week. But you have some delicious recipes to try over the next couple of weeks in this guide. And then. In regards to some cocktails for you. So if you don't have a bottle of Full dose in the house right now. Definitely. You want to pick one up and you'll find a couple of pages in the guide on how to read a Calvin dose label. So what that means and what the different terms are and what you can expect in the class, regards to the different flavor profiles and the age requirement for Calvin dose. So that's in the guide and then you have three delicious cocktail recipes. You have a. Normandy, old fashioned, which is show good. If you were an old fashion lover like me, I definitely am a bourbon fan, but a Calvin dose old fashion is delicious and brings out that flavor of apple with a little bit of orange and the bidders. So yummy. You have a Calvin dose, hot toddy because of course the evenings are going to get cooler. So you don't want something. A little bit cozy. And so here you have delicious warmed Calvin dose with some honey cinnamon, a lemon slice and hot water to taste for you depending on. What flavor you'd like to bring out in the glass. And then should you have a warm sunny patio day in the fall? I've added in a recipe for a Calvin dose Collins, super easy, you have Calvin dose, some club soda, a little bit of lemon juice, simple syrup to choice. If you want to make it a little bit sweeter, but for those sunny last few patio days of fall, the Caldas Collins is nice way to blend the seasons. If you will. So there you have it. That's my walkthrough of my fall. 2020 for pairing inspiration guide. I hope that I have given you a lot of different ideas. Definitely. I stayed on an apple theme and I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do again, the pairings here, you're going to look for the different types of ciders available to you. I think if you haven't been in the side or out for a while, you're going to be really surprised when you take a walk into the cider section of all of the different flavors. And there will be the link in the show notes below about how to re-decide or label and the different styles as well. So you'll be empowered when you get into that aisle, when you're doing your shopping. And in regards to flavors and white wines, her fault. Definitely my favorites. Creamy buttery Chardonnay, Pinot GRI, and Pinot Blanc. Alsatian whites are my favorite this time of year. And I know I'm probably not supposed to have favorites, but I do. And then the CaroMont Alsace is always in my house, it is so good as a bubbly wine. That's very economical and so delicious in the glass, but we'll go with a HealthEast recipes as well. Of course you can never go wrong with a beautiful champagne or your favorite bubble. So I do hope that your mouth is watering. You're making your list. You're starting to think about what you're going to be making for dinner or bringing all your friends together to celebrate. And the next time you're at your favorite farmer's market or shopping store, you're looking at the different apples and pears that you can pick up to make some of these delicious recipes. Now if you have any questions or comments about today's episode, I would love to hear from you. You can reach me@helloatwinegirlacademy.com or come say hi on Instagram or Tik TOK. You'll find me at wine girl academy and definitely bring your questions or comments. Or if you have a favorite after trying these recipes, I would love to hear Andy. If you've made a few tweaks to the recipe, please, please let me know. Now. If you are new here, welcome, please follow along. New episodes. Come out every Tuesday with love to. Have you join us and if you're new and haven't had a chance yet to discover your very own pallet personality, you're going to find the link below in the show notes. And that's going to take you to a short quiz where you're going to discover your very own pellet personality and get an entire booklet. A whole about different wines that you like and give you some suggestions about wines that you could try that are going to be along the same profile of wines you're enjoying now. So to open up a whole new world of wines for you to try. On that note, I want to thank you all for hanging out with me today. I hope that you have enjoyed this walkthrough of my fall inspiration guide. I want to wish you all a wonderful week. Cheers to you. Bye now.