Wine
and chocolate is decidedly not my favorite combination, let’s be honest. Potent
sweet rarely goes with wine, (and I’m not talking sweet wines) but some
combinations of wine and candy do work pretty well (for my spirits and candy
pairing for The Hollywood Reporter, go HERE). So…a few ideas this All Hollow’s
Eve.
From
Carneros come the 2013 Educated Guess Chardonnay (a mere $17) which takes as
its dancing partner the Butterfinger, originally created in 1923 and intended
to be a peanut butter concoction, though that is all but lost these days.
Nonetheless the chocolate on the Butterfinger is of little concern as the
majority of flavor comes from the flaky Butterfinger center with its sweet
caramelized toffee
M&Ms are obviously artificially sweet, though nonetheless addictive and the
2014 Old Vines Sorbo a Sorbo Garnacha (Grenache, a mere $12) from Spain already
with a bright acidity, menthol, cedar and blackberry allows the overt sweetness
of the M&Ms to become mitigated and it softens the wine, dropping out the
acidity so it feels more seamless while the chocolate loses it’s fundamental
sweetness.
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