6 course meal with wines?

[Thraz]

My two cents: The sorbet is meant to allow people to take a break and transition wines, so it should probably be in the middle. If you're willing to rearrange, I would try to put two dishes before the sorbet that go well with one wine, and two afterwards with another wine (plus dessert). Pairings that I would try: a rich chardonnay with the onion soup and the creamy alfredo; sauvignon blanc with the fish and the salad. The banyuls would be great with dessert (although I have never had choloate creme brulee - I don't know if it tastes more like chocolate or like creme crulee, but banyuls and chocolate is a great combination).

I would go with the less rich wine first (i.e. salad, then fish, then sorbet, then alfredo and soup). If it makes you uncomfortable to have the soup later, one bit of trivia: in France, a frequent use of onion soup is not necessarily at the start of a meal. It is sometimes served at parties that last very late or even all night to tide people over at 4am or so. I kid you not: in France, 4am onion soup is a more frequent occurrence than onion soup at the start of a meal in my experience.

I realize pasta is also supposed to be served at the beginning of a meal but I don't know how to crack that one - except by calling it creative timing.