# Pairing Wines with a 15+ course meal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** wine\ **Created:** [May 5, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pairing-wines-with-a-15-course-meal/538374 "2010-05-05T03:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pairing-wines-with-a-15-course-meal/538374/21 "2010-05-05T21:56:28Z")
I, too, want a course-by-course description. But as to the wine choice: You can choose 1 and stay with it for the entire course. The old school thought of reds for beef and white for fish/chicken etc can be thrown out of the window. The sommelier will recommend something that works for the meal and with your budget. _I_ would have at least one red, one white, and a port or sauterne to end the meal. But that’s the way I roll. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pairing-wines-with-a-15-course-meal/538374/22 "2010-05-06T11:38:38Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Well it doesn’t really matter anyway because, like every decent restaurant that serves a tasting menu Gagnaire’s restaurants all sell wine by the glass. It isn’t uncommon to be offered a different glass with every course at a decent restaurant. Actually, this was had in mind with regard to pairing. I didn’t consider that the OP would want one bottle that would match the entire meal. And yeah, my 17 course lunch at the Fat Duck took 3.5 hours (but I wasn’t drinking wine sadly), and dinner at Le Manoir, a 10-course tasting menu, took 3 hours. The OP’s linked review says the 15-course menu at Pierre Gagnaire’s took 4.5 hours! And I’m looking forward to hearing about it too. Drool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pairing-wines-with-a-15-course-meal/538374.md?page=1)