What Wine with French Onion Soup?

Doing a rustic French country meal on the weekend - terrine, French onion soup, daube de boeuf, tarte des pommes.

The wine match that I am pondering most is the soup. Lots of choices - lighter acidic red (Beaujolais) or white with some character - pinot gris, chard, domestic or Alsatian.

Does anyone have any killer onion soup wine matches in memory? I expect that this dish often goes wineless, but figured there'd be others like me for whom the concept of 'wineless' is anathema!

I usually go with Gamay or Pinot Noir and serve the onion soup as a lead in to grilled steak, where I would serve a heartier red (Cab Sauv or Cab Franc), but a Pinot Gris might work.

Yep, Gamay. Crus Beaujolais will do nicely.

Have not tried this myself, but gamay does sounds good. A good chard also seems like it would pair well.

Think I'll try a pinot, thanks for the thoughts.

Am going to do a Madiran with the daube, still pondering the other matches.

if the base is a beef stock, what about a dry sherry? i've had a highly reduced beef consomme with an oloroso which was nothing short of a revelation.

It is beef stock, and I'm waffling between port, sherry, and madeira, as each bring something different to the party.

[Jenise]

I am so there with timo's rec on the sherry for the same reason that I would also rec a mature Chardonnay. I recall a five/six year old St. auburn that just rocked a French onion soup. The wine would haven tasted slightly oxidative with a salad or something else fresh/raw, but was amazing with that soup.

I'd add sherry in the onion soup.

Here is a radical idea. No wine. It's a soup. You gotta wash it down?

Here is a radical idea. No wine. It's a soup. You gotta wash it down?

Food without wine? Surely you jest!