Welcome to Chocolate for Wine Lovers. Wine and chocolate are two of nature's greatest pleasures. Throughout history, people have been awestruck at the ability of each to stimulate the palate and challenge the mind. Indeed, the arousing flavors that emerge from a single sip of wine or a bite of rich chocolate are often beyond words.
But how do these two flavors best
complement each other? That's the
question that chocolate experts,
wine writers, tasting specialists
and top sommeliers gathered to
explore recently at the offices of
Wine Spectator© in New York City.
Their ambitious approach was to tackle the taste combinations of a dozen diverse wines and an equal number of exotic chocolates in an ultimate comparative tasting. By pushing the boundaries, they found that wine and chocolate cannot only be enjoyed together; they can enhance each other in myriad ways. In these pages, you will learn along with the tasters and follow their methodology, as they reveal the secrets of amazing wine and chocolate combinations.
Once you discover how to harmoniously combine these two beautiful, complex and captivating tastes, you may never look at chocolate, or wine, quite the same.
