Not everyone serves wine with desserts. Some other options with dessert are: coffee, hot tea, or a fortified product like a port wine (best with a fruit and cheese dessert).
If you do want to serve a wine with your sweet dessert, it should be different from the wine you served either with your main course and/or your appetizers.
Here are some easy guidelines for serving wine with a sweet dessert:
With most desserts:
- Rieslings
- Muscat-based wines
- Sparkling wines, especially from Italy
- Sparkling wines, especially from Italy and France
- Non-sweet sherries such as a Pedro Ximénez--this is more for wine buff types who know a thing or two about wine
With fruit and cheese, or a cheese course:
Here a stronger, dryer wine is in order; but it depends on the type of cheese, so ask either your cheese vendor for a wine recommendation or ask at a wine shop for a specific suggestion for the type of cheese you plan to serve.
The important thing to remember is that sweet desserts do not go well with the dryer, stronger flavors of wine that DO go well with appetizers and main courses.
In general, when planning an event, in order to choose specific wines within these types of general guidelines, it's always good to get to know the knowledgeable people at a good wine or liquor store. They can often make recommendations at no charge. And if you know at least the general rules of thumb it makes the wine mystery less mysterious!
¡Salud!
Kristina
Kristina Ríos de Lumbreras, Ph.D.
Partner, Director of Sales
FANDANGO Catering
(281) 796-9841
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