How Do You Pair Dessert Wine With Meals?
Thankfully, there’s more to wine than red, white and champagne. Dessert wines are enjoyed by both connoisseurs and amateurs and can make any occasion a little sweeter. The tricks to pairing dessert wine with meals can be found in the following steps. Serve your dessert wine solo. The easiest way to pair this type of wine with food is to serve it as the meal is wrapping up. Dessert wines don’t necessarily need a food to compliment them, but can compliment an entire meal by being served last. Make the dessert wine the sweetest serving. Never pair a dessert wine with a dessert food that is sweeter than the wine. For example, avoid serving a French apple tart with a subtly sweet wine. An easy to way to solve this problem is to serve the wine directly after the dessert, rather than with it. Pour your port wines with walnuts. Most ports–a type of dessert wine–go well with walnuts because walnuts are highly tannic. The tannins in the nuts are overshadowed by the port’s sweet taste. Slice up
