As a kind of food with a long history, chocolate is very popular among sweeters with its unique mellow taste. With the progress and innovation of production technology, the style and flavor of chocolate have become more diversified and become a good choice for many young people to give gifts and confess.

When tasting chocolate, many people will choose to match a drink, such as the usual milk and coffee, and some food and wine lovers choose to match wine, so that the flavor of the wine collides with chocolate to create a different spark. However, if the wine is mismatched, it is likely to affect the taste of chocolate, so it is particularly important to choose a suitable wine. Next, this article will introduce the matching principles of chocolate and wine.

1、 Match according to the purity of chocolate

According to purity, chocolate can be divided into three types: dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate. As chocolate is made from cocoa products and sugar as the main raw materials, its purity mainly depends on the content of cocoa. The higher the content of cocoa means that the taste of chocolate is thicker and mellow, and the sweetness is relatively low. In terms of collocation, we should pay attention to the selection of wine with appropriate sweetness according to the purity of chocolate.

1. Dark chocolate

Dark chocolate is brownish or brownish black in appearance, which is a kind of chocolate with the highest purity. Its main ingredient is cocoa solids, the proportion of sugar and milk is small, and it is usually hard, with rich cocoa flavor and slightly bitter taste. The polyphenols in dark chocolate are a little similar to the tannins in wine. When dark chocolate is paired with high tannin wine, the superposition of the two bitters may bring unpleasant taste. Therefore, when tasting dark chocolate, you should choose wines with low tannins or strong fruit flavor to neutralize the bitterness of chocolate, such as port, lateharvest Zinfandel and vinsantodelchianti.

2. Milk chocolate

Milk chocolate is light brown in appearance. Its raw materials include dairy products in addition to the basic cocoa powder. It is a kind of chocolate with both cocoa and frankincense flavor. Creamy ingredients add grease to milk chocolate, making it more suitable to match wine than dark chocolate. Because the sweetness in food will highlight the bitterness and acidity of wine, it is recommended to choose sweet wines when matching milk chocolate: moscateldesetubal, Pedro ximenezsherry, cream sherry, rasteauvindouxnatural Aged years, such as agedvintageport and Rutherglen Muscat.

3. White chocolate

White chocolate is generally milky white and is made of cocoa butter, dairy products and sugar. Strictly speaking, white chocolate is not a real "chocolate", because its ingredients do not contain cocoa powder. Due to the high sugar content, white chocolate has the sweetest taste and the highest fat content among the three. When paired with white chocolate, you can choose light sweet wines, such as Muscat, moscatod 'Asti, roseport and Lambrusco.

2、 Match according to the flavor of chocolate

Nowadays, there are many kinds of chocolates with different flavors on the market, including sweet caramel flavor chocolates, crispy and delicious nut chocolates, etc., providing consumers with more choices. When tasting chocolate with different flavors, you can choose the right wine according to the corresponding flavor.

1. Caramel chocolate

Caramel chocolate contains sweet caramel flavor, which makes the sweetness, salinity, fat and bitterness reach a perfect balance. When tasting Caramel chocolate, it is recommended to match with old tawnyport and setubar musk fortified sweet wine, whose rich flavor can be superimposed on and complementary to caramel flavor.

2. Nut chocolate

Nut chocolate refers to chocolate with nuts such as almonds, hazelnuts and peanuts. This kind of chocolate is generally best matched with sweet wine with nut flavor, such as Amontillado sherry, Oloroso sherry and Madeira.

3、 Matching skills of other chocolate products

Nowadays, desserts in all kinds of cafes and bakeries are emerging in endlessly, among which chocolate desserts are also popular. So what kind of wine should be paired with these chocolate products?

1. Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake is rich in starch and fat, with full taste and rich aroma. Black forest cake is a typical chocolate cake. You can choose the same rich wine with it, such as Syrah red wine, aged Cabernet Sauvignon wine or sweet port wine.

2. Freeze dried strawberry sandwich chocolate

There is a new type of chocolate dessert, which is a chocolate ball with freeze-dried strawberries as the sandwich, in the sweet smelling dessert shop and on the colorful chocolate product shelves. This dessert combines the fragrance of strawberries and the sweetness of chocolate. It is suitable for matching with sweet and fruity wines, such as Icewine, Tokaj dessert and vintage port.

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In short, the purity and flavor of chocolate should be fully considered when choosing wine to match chocolate products. When tasting a chocolate, you can first think about which fruit it matches, and then find a wine with this fruit flavor, which will make it easier to find a suitable match.

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