Wine sauce

Wine sauce is a culinary sauce prepared with wine as a primary ingredient, heated and mixed with stock, butter, herbs, spices, onions, garlic and other ingredients.

Several types of wine sauces exist, and it is used in many dishes, including those prepared with seafood, poultry and beef.

Ingredients in addition to wine may include stock, mushrooms, butter or shrimp butter, tarragon vinegar, shallot, chervil, tarragon, spices,[2] onion, garlic and others.

[3] Some wine sauces are creamy,[4] prepared with the addition of cream or milk.

Wine sauce may be used in seafood dishes, such as those prepared using tuna and salmon.

The wine sauce for this preparation is made by boiling vinegar, wine, onion, sugar and spices, such as bay leaf, cinnamon, clove, allspice, ginger, nutmeg and pepper, after which is rests to allow time for the ingredients to incorporate their flavors.

[14] Additionally, plain wine itself without any further preparation may be used as a sauce on foods, such as on pears or on desserts such as ice cream.