Well, I tried it and.....

[winecollector]

I couldn't find the original posting (Bucko struck again?), but there was a posting where someone wanted to know what wine went with a chocolate dessert. Though I recommended a sweet wine, a white Zin, many of you guys brought out the Rhones. Always trying to be open minded, I thought I'd give the Rhones a shot.

I opened up two different wines from Paul Jaboulet- a 1995 Crozes Hermitage, and a 1997 Parallel "45". The wines were opened with a frozen Hershey's chocolate mousse cake, that I have served several times before during wine tastings. Though the wines were enjoyable by themselves, I really was not impressed with how they matched up with the dessert. I look for a wine & food matchup to make each taste better. If that doesn't happen, or you can enjoy them better without being matched-up, then why bother?

Well, like I said, I tried. In my opinion the Rhones did not do the dessert the justice that a sweeter wine would have. Maybe it's just me, but I think the sissy wines won this one!