Wine and Chocolate? This is how you do it!

Wine and Chocolate? This is how you do it!

Chocolate is typically paired with rum, but not everyone knows that cocoa-based products go excellently with lots of other drinks including a glass of good wine!

Follow these three simple steps and you can't go wrong:

            •          Start off with good chocolate; it can be milk chocolate, white or dark, the important thing is to maintain high standards;

            •          Choose your wine based on the percentage of cocoa: the higher the percentage of cocoa the richer the wine should be in alcohol, structure and aromatic intensity, but make sure to keep a careful eye on the right balance between bitter, sweet and acidic elements;

            •          The wine should always be sweeter than the chocolate, if not, it will taste sour. For instance, match white chocolate with a Moscato, milk chocolate with a Pinot Gris and dark chocolate with more full-bodied wines such as Pinot Noir.

If you don't feel at the expert level yet, don't worry! There's no end to the combinations of flavour and aroma in wine and chocolate and you'll probably only be able to make the perfect match after long experience so keep on experimenting and experimenting!