Actually, red wine doesn't really go with chocolate. The flavors are
all wrong with the chocolate deadening the wine and the wine making the
chocolate bitter. Port is better than table wines but still not good.
I suggest small amounts of cointreau for them that drinks alcohol and
tall glasses of plain milk for them that don't. You might have both
whole and skim available and let guests mix to their own taste in
butterfat. I know milk is an odd drink for an adult party, but if
you're thinking flavor, it can't be beat for complementing chocolate.


--Lia


Bob wrote:
> [I sent this almost 12 hours ago and it never showed up on my server, so I'm
> guessing it got lost. My apologies if some people receive it twice.]
>
> My sister sent me a sampler box of bittersweet chocolate, and I'm thinking
> of having a small chocolate-tasting party. (see
> http://www.chocosphere.com/Html/Products/amedei.html and look at the "I Cru"
> Origin Sampler Box)
>
> I'm a bit stumped on what to drink. I want something which will complement
> the chocolate but not have a strong flavor of its own. I'm thinking along
> the lines of apricot nectar, cran-cherry juice, or milk, but none of them
> seem quite right either. Coffee seems like it would be too
> strongly-flavored, and I don't care for tea with chocolate. My sister
> suggested port, but I'm not real enthusiastic about the idea. I'm not
> particularly averse to alcohol, but since we'll be having at least six sips,
> I'd rather not have anything *too* alcoholic. Red wine would be a
> possibility, but one of my guests suspects that it's a migraine trigger for
> her (though chocolate is not). Oh, and one of the guests is pregnant, so I
> guess she'll be avoiding alcohol altogether.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Bob
>
>