12 hours Ago By [email protected] (Nikki Munoz)
If you like the idea of pairing wine with chocolate, then you'll want to find out the best wines to pair with each type of chocolate. If white chocolate is your go-to, then you'll want to pay especially close attention. To find out everything to know about pairing white chocolate with wine, Daily Meal spoke with an expert: Victoria Johnson, the Head Chocolatier at Temper Chocolates in Denver, Colorado.
Johnson says, "If you're a white chocolate lover, a good pairing for this creamy buttery chocolate would be a light wine like a Moscato because the light bubbly and fruitiness of the wine cuts the fatty and rich but sweet chocolate." Moscato is a sweet wine, so, paired with white chocolate, you have yourself one indulgent after-dinner sweet treat. In fact, it's one of the sweet wines that are perfect for beginners , along with White Zinfandel, Sauternes, Riesling, and more — so you may want to give one of these other wines a try if you can't find a bottle of Moscato for any reason (or simply want to try a few options with the white chocolate).
What's the best spirit to pair with white chocolate? If you're not a wine person, then you can still enjoy a nice alcohol-white chocolate pairing. As for spirits, there's one that comes to mind for Johnson: Dark rum. Johnson explains, "A dark rum with white chocolate would be beautiful because of the deep caramel and spice notes of the alcohol.
It creates a rich warm experience between the two." With this in mind, you can choose to enjoy dark rum either on the rocks or in a cocktail. When it comes to cocktails, there are plenty of options out there featuring dark rum for you to choose from, based on what you're in the mood for.
For example, you could pair the white chocolate with a dark and stormy , a classic rum cocktail. There's also a rum sour or, for something tropical, a mai tai . But if you're looking for something a bit more warm and cozy, then pair the white chocolate with a mug of hot buttered rum .
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