Dinner Party: please help me find a starter that will go well with Reindeer! And which wine!

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I am going to have to pick the brains of all you cooking gurus.

We are a group of friends who take it in turn to do "native" dinner parties, so we cook popular dishes of our homeland. Next time will be my time to host.

The main course will be shavings of reindeer, panfried, with a little onion and mushroom, seasoned with salt, pepper, allspice, coriander, and quite a lot of crushed juniper berries, then sour cream is poured over towards the end, with grated norwegian brown goats cheese "melted" into the sauce as it browns. Simply served with new potatoes, cranberry and some steamed broccoli and asparagus.

Dessert is either fresh cloudberries on vanilla ice cream, or a cloudberry parfait served in a sort of fine pastry pipe.

Coffee and cloudberry liquour.

I was thinking Faustino V to go with the reindeer, but not sure.

The starter has me stumped. Any ideas?

I was going to bring authentic rollmops, where the herring is so tender you dont have to chew.... But there was this thing about no liquid through security, and I did not have success passing it off as baby food. But yes, that was a plan, nibble that on dark ryebread, prior to my starter...

Actually it all sounds fairly delicious, can I come to dinner? Promise not to misbehave at table ...

oh Madamez.... I am too scared of you, and the parties you have mentioned on earlier threads, golden showers, etc.....

But sure, what the heck, new year, new experiences, you better behave! lol