Ask wine expert Natalie MacLean - here's her Top 10 list of wines and chocolate delights, just in time for Valentine's Day...or today...
Natalie MacLean is the author of "Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass" and she has a lot to say about wine, chocolate, and how to match them.
Wine and chocolate may not taste at all the same, but they share some of the same qualities. "Velvety, sensuous, heady, soothing, tantalizing, luxurious" all are words that can describe them both. And both are liable to show up on Valentine's Day.
Natalie suggests wines to match many foods on her site at www.nataliemaclean.com/matcher and she feels chocolate matches up best with a sweet, full-bodied, high-alcohol wine. Mmmm, sounds like an evening to remember, to me...
Natalie's top 10 wine and chocolate matches:
1. Dark Chocolate and Banyuls, France 2. Chocolate-Covered Biscotti and Recioto Della Valpolicella, Italy 3. Chocolate-Orange Cake and Liqueur Muscat, Australia 4. Chocolate with Nuts and Tawny Port, Portugal 5. Milk Chocolate and Tokaji, Hungary 6. Bittersweet Chocolate and Amarone, Italy 7. Chocolate-Dipped Fruit and Icewine, Canada 8. Chocolate Ganache Truffles and Sauternes, France 9. Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake and Framboise, California 10. Chocolate Hearts with Cream Filling and Cream Sherry, Spain
Give me Strawberry Tuxedos and Icewine, please. I'm trying not to drool on my Canadian keyboard.
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Natalie MacLean is the author of "Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass" and she has a lot to say about wine, chocolate, and how to match them.
