Pairing Chocolate With Tokay Wines

Tokaji(Tokay) originally from Hungarian Tokaj - Hegyalja region. Tokaj region in Slovak also produces good wines provided Hungarian quality control is obeyed.

 Tokaji Aszú is topaz-colored wine and is the most famous in the world Tokay type wine. It is naturaly sweet and its sweetness comes from botrytised (like "nobly" rotten) grapes. Alcohol content usually goes higher than 14%.

Other sweet Tokaji wines include:

Tokaji Szamorodni (originaly known as főbor or prime wine). It is made from botrytised grapes and contains up to 100-120g of residual sugar. Its alcohol content is usually around 14%. Dark chocolate can pair with this wine as a contrast to its sweet taste.

Tokaji Cuvée wines which are high quality ones and relatively high priced. Bitter chocolate can complement Tokaji Cuvée making blend taste extremely pleasant to your taste buds.

Tokaji ice wine with Château Pajzos winery starting first to produce such in 1999. Again bitterness of dark chocolate can unite with the sweetness of the wine making pair work well together and compensate each other's contrariety.

 Eszencia, also called Nectar is extremely sweet wine and is one of the most exclusive wines of the world. Its alcohol content is 5-6% at most due to enormous sugar concentration (500-700g per litter). Uniqueness of this wine lies in its ability to maintain quality for about 200 years and still be excellent for drinking. You won't be able to drink a lot of it at one sit, so sweet it is. Really bitter chocolate with cocoa content 90% and more can match this wine and reduce its sweetness making taste to be truly unique and longed for.

Tokaji wines are also good with sweet fruit dishes as well as fruity desserts and some orange involved chocolate desserts.

Try

LINDEMANS SHOW RESERVE TOKAY  with some of these chocolaty desserts:

If you like Tokaj wines you may also like

De Bortoli 'NOBLE 1' Botrytis Semillon 2006*

 If you are a really 'Sweet tooth' person, then tokay and milk or white chocolate will definitely satisfy your needs. Doubtfully there is something to beat this pair in sweet sensation...

* available worldwide, although some territories excluded due to law restrictions