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- mario21 - 06-14-2004
I am new to the wine industry wanting to know what wine goes best with chocolate or any kind of sweet?
Please help.
- Thomas - 06-15-2004
For chocolate a nice Ruby Port (or even a Tawny) but certainly a Late Bottled Vintage and, definitely, Banyuls. Some Madeira wines (Bual) do nicely with chocolate too.
As for other sweets, problematic: takes a lot of experimentation, since many sweet wines are best as desserts on their own, but not all of them.
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- wondersofwine - 06-15-2004
I will provide two different answers. With chocolate some of your choices are Port, Banyuls and some say late harvest Zinfandel but I haven't found that to work very well.
With sweet desserts such as fruit tarts or pies or shortcake or non-chocolatey cookies, you might have a German Riesling Spatlese or Auslese, a Sauternes (France), a Muscat wine (from California or Italy--Moscato d'Asti). Banfi sells a sparkling red wine (Rosa Regale Brachetto d'Acqui) that seems to pair well with both chocolate and strawberry/raspberry desserts. (Banfi says it marries particularly well with dark or bittersweet chocolates.)
- dananne - 06-15-2004
I'd second all suggestions, especially the Banfi. I'd also suggest Bonny Doon's Framboise, a raspberry "wine" that is delicious with chocolate.
- winoweenie - 06-15-2004
Second all of the above especially the frambie! WW
- californiagirl - 06-15-2004
Love the Framboise!! Also very keen on Bonny Doon's Orange Muscat, (don't remember their fancy name), goes good with dark chocolate.
I've found, and you'll all probably think I'm a little different, that a good solid Merlot also goes quite well with dark chocolate.
Oh yeah. Almost forgot. Villa Toscano's LH Zin is quite nice also.
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