sweets

[mario21]

I am new to the wine industry wanting to know what wine goes best with chocolate or any kind of sweet?
Please help.

[Thomas]

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]

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]

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]

Second all of the above especially the frambie! WW

[californiagirl]

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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