How to create a "Met In Heaven" when going for chocolate and wine?   

  There are so many wines to choose  from and certainly there  is a great variety of chocolates and  chocolate sweets to go  as a match. If you select a perfect combination, both can taste  heavenly supplementing  each other with  every sip and bite.

   No doubt these two can support your great mood and can be a wonderful way for creating one. Chocolate and wine is the best food to go for when you want a romantic evening with your loved one. Just to  emphasise their meaning you can add some beautiful flowers and flavored candles. Not many things can beat that.

    There is  a setback though. Sometimes  pairing food  can be difficult task, and finding wine to match the chocolate can be a real challenge. But there are some guidelines, proved to suite most people who love both.

    Dry and highly acidic wine can be a hard time when combining with chocolate. Chocolate  can be a  killer to majority of  wines, which  is not the  best news to wine lovers. The thing is that sweet chocolate desserts can underline sour taste of  a wine  even more  and  hence make  you feel about  wine as  not  appealing addition.

   This is nothing to worry about. Properly matched, they make all the difference and can be one of the best complement to each other.

  There are some not complicated rules when it comes to choosing a wine and a chocolate that work together:

•   The  main thing  to  remember  is that  the  distance between  wine and chocolate  sweetness  should  always be short, that is  wine should  be at least  as sweet as the chocolate, maybe even  slightly sweeter. Otherwise the  sour notes of  wine will make it appear hollow and  might set you back from enjoying your time.
•  Generally speaking, red wines pair with chocolate  much better than white ones. Stop your hesitation and try a specially selected and ready to enjoy pair: Chateau Chocolat Red Wine & Dark Catwalk prepared by specialist. Some white wines  of late  harvest do the exception though.  Champagnes are almost always good with  any kind of chocolate and choc desserts. 
• Chocolate  and tannin are not friends, so tannin rich wines should go with savory dishes.
• To be on a safe side at any time, go for fortified wines. Added  spirit would boost sweetness and the whole body of the wine. So choosing a good port will  be a sure success. You won't go wrong  pairing such  with dark or milk chocolate as well as pralines.
• Another  safe pick would  be aromatic Muscat wines. There is close affinity between Muscat  wines and chocolate. The perfect  variety of  such wines would  be between medium  and heavy  weight ones (Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise - a French  wine, and  Australian liqueur Muscat can  be as an example). And, you  probably can't  go wrong with sweet wines like French Banyuls. It is as good with dark chocolate as with more sweet varieties.
• Just  to let you know, that wine quality does matter. Bad  wine will just be even worser with chocolate. To make  the pair work you might go for $15-30 a bottle. Ideally, wine should be the best quality possible. Try Cabernet Francs or sweet Tokay Aszus.
• You would  do the right thing  if you taste the wine first and  then start to enjoy anything  made of chocolate. This caution  is to prevent your  taste buds  from being covered with chocolate that will sweeten your mouth and block  the way for a  wine with a thin cocoa butter layer. Trying  wine first will allow you to actually evaluate the flavor and taste of a wine itself.
• If you pair wines with chocolate, keep in mind another general rule: elegant flavored  light chocolate  better goes with  lighter-bodied  wines; therefore the stronger flavored chocolate is, the more full-bodied wine you need  in order  to meet perfection. Said that, a bittersweet chocolate, like the one with at least 70% cocoa content, goes well with intense red wines such as Zinfandel or a sweeter option - Port.
•  Having  touched light  and strong  chocolate and  wine theme, comes out another suggestion. If you  are visiting a wine tasting event with a several chocolate things to choose from, then  try them in light to dark order. That is, start with a subtle white chocolate gradually moving to milk, plain to bittersweet and ending up with dark bitter chocolate.
• If you are holding a party and not sure what to offer your guests just let a bigger variety do the job. Let say put two red wines, a sweet wine and/or port  to safe  yourself and also experiment  with something  unusual and unexpected. Let the wines lead the party. Offer bigger variety of desserts including white, milk and dark chocolate sweets to go along.
•  Focus  on quality and  flavors of  chocolate and  wine, not judging the match. The more you worry about the latter the less enjoyment you get.

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