What wine with chocolate?
Food and wine pairing · classic benchmarks: the preparation and your taste come first.
Dark chocolate, powerful and bitter, crushes dry wines. Its true allies are fortified sweet reds with cocoa and dark-fruit aromas: Banyuls and chocolate is a textbook pairing.
Sweet and fortified
Sweet, powerful and cocoa-tinged: the wine must match the chocolate's intensity.
How to use these pairings
A good pairing balances the dish and the wine: neither should dominate. The suggestions above are proven classics for the category, not rules: the preparation, the sauce and your taste matter more. When in doubt, the regional pairing (the wine from the dish's homeland) rarely fails.
What about your cellar?
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