Wine has been a late entrant in my life, once I got tired of the vodka and whiskey, I shifted to wines.
Wine is always better in taste, yes it is a developed flavour, but nothing can beat a glass of chilled white wine with good food. Honestly, it is a refined drink and the kinds you do not need to get drunk on.
Chocolates have been my weakness since childhood and when I had a chance to attend a special wine and chocolate appreciation classes at The Sheraton by Art Chocolat and Sula Vineyards, I was excited. Chocolates and wines together are the foods of good and the pairing is among one of the finest.
Here are 5 things I understood about chocolates and wine:
1. Wines paired with chocolate taste different on each tastebuds. For me champagne worked best with fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate, for many cheesecake chocolates work. This is the reason you must try three variants of chocolates to understand what works for you.
2. The best way to identify a wine is by looking at the Vintage year written on it, as the older the wine the finer and stronger it will taste.
3. Chocolates unlike our usual habit, should never be stored in the freezer. It’s best to store them in an air tight container in the vegetable section of the fridge.
4. Go local! Often we pick overpriced chocolates and wines because the label says Belgium chocolates or Australian wine, but these are marketing ploys by big firms which bank on our lack of knowledge and sell us low quality products at inflated prices.
5. Wine and chocolate together are considered aphrodisiac foods in many countries, hence they ate often gifted to someone you love.
