dessert wine? - FoodBanter.com

"Brooklyn1" Gravesend1 wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:05:13 -0800 (PST), RichD
wrote:

Supposedly there are wines suitable for a dessert
dish. And sweet wines are recommended. It strikes
me that sweet on top of sweet would be overkill, but
I'm willing to try.

I can't imagine wine with ice cream, or with chocolate
cake, but perhaps pumpkin or cherry pie. Or baked
alaska (whatever that is) -

Anyone have any dessert/wine pairings to recommend?

Champagne goes well with anything.

Champagne comes dry (brut) and semi-dry (sec or
demi-sec) and if you try to use brut Champagne with
most desserts it will taste harsh and sour. The sweeter
Champagnes can work but there are much better and
cheaper wines to start with.

For anything chocolate try some sort of Port, there are
many around for $10-15. It is sort of a try a few and see
what happens, no hard and fast rules. But a Port marked
Ruby is pretty sweet and less interesting than one marked
Tawny, which has really nice citrus tones to it. Try a Tawny
Port with, again, almost any chocolate dessert. Or with
cheese, if you like it. Tawny Port is great with almost all
cheeses.

For brighter flavored desserts, cookies, orange or strawberry
or vanilla flavors, you might try a sweet Sherry, and fortunately
Gallo makes a surprisingly good one called Sheffield Cream
Sherry (Cream always denotes a sweet sherry.) If you can
find Madeira, which is pretty much available also, get a sweet
one also. These wines should be well chilled. And you can
serve them with ice cream, pies or cakes. Both the Sheffield
Sherry and a decent Madeira can be had for less than $10.

You have to experiment, though. You might get a bottle (or a
half bottle) of a couple of these wines and raid your local
cookie counter; get a variety of types and flavors of cookies
and see which goes with what. It's all a matter of tasting and
noting what you like. Nothing is wrong but the above is a good
way to get a running start on a very complex series of food/
wine interactions. Good luck.

pavane

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