Julia Altshuler wrote:
> 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.

Chocolate will assassinate the flavor of almost any wine. Really strong
Zinfandel is about the only red table wine that will go with chocolate,
but it goes surprisingly well. The bartender at the Santa Maria Inn
(Santa Maria, California) turned me on to this combination (Mariposa
Zinfandel and Scharffenberger chocolate, IIRC) many years ago.
--
Chris Green