Easter Wine Matches 🐰
EASTER. As we look forward to the opening up and enjoying the company of our family and friends, do try these surprisingly good wine matches with chocolate eggs and bunnies over the Easter weekend. Cheers! Lynne Levin.
Pinot Noir + Milk Chocolate – the milder, sweeter characters of milk chocolate merge seamlessly with bright red fruits, cherry, plum and cranberry with a drying finish of rose water and orange peel – MICHAEL HALL ADELAIDE HILLS PINOT NOIR 2016 (£44.90)
Or scents of cassis, cardamom, and ripe, dark cherry, with strawberry, gooseberry, cola, and coffee spice – ROCO MARSH ESTATE PINOT NOIR 2015 CERTIFIED ORGANIC (£57.90).
Rosé + White Chocolate – with no cacao in white chocolate it is a seductive match to Rosé, with its mineral edge, strawberry, red apple and cranberry fruit this, White chocolate covered strawberries and you are in heaven – 2017 LEVIN GAMAY ROSÉ CERTIFIED ORGANIC, VEGAN (£14.50).
Tempranillo + Dark Chocolate – the intensity of bittersweet chocolate has a lovely harmony with concentrated Tempranillo notes of macerated cherry, cassis and blackberry bramble, liquorice, rosemary, peppercorns on the silky, rich, integrated palate – VALDEHERMOSO JOVEN TEMPRANILLO 2018 CERTIFIED ORGANIC, BIODYNAMIC (£17.00).
