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Heart of Dark(chocolate)ness & Red Wine

Heart of Dark(chocolate)ness & Red Wine

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Fredric Koeppel
Jul 04, 2008
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It's one of those commonplace assessments in wine and food matching that red wine and chocolate make a divinely shivery marriage on the taste buds, but it's not always, and in fact is rather rarely, true. Many red wines are too tannic and oaky to pair with chocolate. Milk chocolate and almost any red wine make a Big Bummer. Best bets are varieties of da…

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