Food & Wine Matching Christmas Pudding
Christmas Pudding and Mince Pies are delicious with the similarly flavoured aged Tawny Ports and rich Madeiras; both wines go very well with rich chocolate desserts too. With a traditional sherry trifle serve a sweet Sherry (sweet Oloroso Sherry or Pedro Ximenez) or a botrytised Australian Semillon.
Other Pudddings
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Fruit based puddings
Most fruit-based puddings are not very sweet (when compared to other desserts) and quite high in acid; the same characteristics can be found in sweet Loire wines and German Riesling Spatlese, Auslese and Beerenauslesese -
Chocolate
The ladies’ favourite but the most difficult to match. Wines need to be ultra-sweet and full of flavour to match the chocolate. Aged Tawny Port is one of the best choices, but if you insist on white wine try a Muscat de Beaumes Venise instead -
Tarte Tatin
The high acidity from the apples and intense sweetness of the caramel are a perfect match to top quality Barsac or Sauternes. Simpler apple pies and tarts need a less sweet wine like other fruit-based desserts (see above)
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