Anyone crazy for chocolate and red wine?
Ghirardelli's and a nice merlot does it for me. What's your favorite?
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14 Comments:
I got an imaginary migraine just thinking about it. Red wines and I don't like each other much. I've probably tried white dessert wines with chocolatey things, but nothing comes to mind.
dbcurrie at 6:17PM on 07/31/09
LOVE the combo. Give me a good, dense, dark, gooey chocolate cake/pie/brownie and a good merlot (Meerlust from South Africa comes to mind) and I'm in heaven.
hungryinhouston at 7:06PM on 07/31/09
I am a true believer that red wine and chocolate are a bad pairing.
But that's just me, because it's a very popular pairing.
Silvia at 7:07PM on 07/31/09
I really don't drink anymore, but I remember doing that pairing a great deal after a hard day in my late 20s.
HeartofGlass at 7:39PM on 07/31/09
Chocolate with a stout beer is more to my liking.l
dmcavanagh at 7:43PM on 07/31/09
I once held a chocolate dessert and red wine class at a local wine store - sold out and we repeated it twice! We found the best combination was the chocolate desserts without nuts or fruit and a Norton.
Okay, say many of you, a what? Norton. It's not a v. vinifera, it's a v. aestivalis, and it's mostly grown in the US, particularly here in Missouri and Virginia. (In Virginia, there's a Horton Norton!) It is fabulous with chocolate Mr. Meatloaf introduced Barbara Ensrud, the wine writer, to the combo. Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon has made a port of it. Although I am not a believer in port and chocolate myself, some might find that great.
We do tend to save a little of whatever red we're drinking to finish off any chocolate dessert we might have.
lemons at 11:20PM on 07/31/09
This may sound strange, but I often drink room temperature bottled water when I eat chocolate and I really enjoy it. More then milk? Sometimes...
sousvide at 12:13AM on 08/01/09
dove dark chocolate and a pinot
machellebelle at 7:57AM on 08/01/09
Add me to the beer and chocolate group.
RegrettableFoodie at 6:22PM on 08/01/09
Dark chocolate Toblerone or dark chocolate Godiva (with or without raspberry) and a cab or shiraz are my current pairings of choice...but they change. Yum!
littlestcapy at 6:59PM on 08/01/09
My favorite in a restaurant is the dark chocolate terrine from a restaurant called Buckhead's (I worked there for years) in Richmond, VA, paired with any full bodied red.
At home, any dark chocolate with a high percentage of cacao with any red, the bigger the better.
My friend conducts single malt scotch tastings pairing with chocolate chip cookies. Works for small batch bourbon, too.
Again, proof that God loves us.
wookie at 1:30PM on 08/02/09
a Pedro Ximinez sherry from Spain along with a piece of single origin bittersweet chocolate is my idea of heaven!
http://www.wildriverreview.com/wrratlarge/?tag=warren-bobrow
warrenbobrow at 9:31AM on 08/03/09
Milka wafer bars and shiraz. Holy criz, am I in the chocolate and wine group.
embolini9 at 9:48PM on 08/03/09
Dark chocolate and a good Cab, or even 2 Buck Chuck, sounds good to me.
elliotth at 11:40PM on 08/04/09