Like wine for chocolate
March 2, 2010 by admin
Filed under A & E, Hot hot hot
Wondering how to best wash down your delicious desserts?
Pair with rich chocolate desserts — The cherry wine from Carlson Vineyards. Serve chilled. For a real treat, serve with melted Enstrom’s dark chocolate (or any quality dark chocolate) on the rim of the wineglass. Very decadent.
With fruit tarts but sweets (but not rich or heavy) — Fruit wines, like peach, apricot, plum and pear.
The best match for all chocolates — Colorado dessert wines, like ports and Late Harvest wines, including Canyon Wind Cellars, Two Rivers, Graystone, Guy Drew, Whitewater Hill and Plum Creek.
Tip: When pairing cabernet sauvignon with chocolate, you run the risk of ruining fine wine and fine chocolate. But if you insist, it is recommended that you use only dark chocolate and a low-tannin cabernet. The same holds true for merlot or cabernet franc.
— By Claire Tindall, with the Fresh Ideas Group
