what are some successful pairings with Trockenbeerenauslese?

Jeff

Foie gras goes superbly.

Ron

"hunter" > wrote in message
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> what are some successful pairings with Trockenbeerenauslese?
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> Jeff
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Some suggest ripe fruit such as a nectarine or peach. Some suggest
simple cooked fruit desserts made from light colored fruits such as
apples. I might consider these for a non-Riesling or rather average
Riesling TBA. For a top Riesling TBA, food just gets in the way,
detracts, and has nothing to offer. Also it is best to drink it alone in
the afternoon or evening rather than when one is stuffed with a large
dinner. Food has nothing to offer to a top Riesling TBA,Tokaji Eszencia,
and the like. Of course lesser examples such as Tokaji Aszu 6P, an
average non-Riesling TBA, and other wines of like richness pair well
with quite a few dishes. For a top Riesling TBA or Tokaji Eszencia, the
taste and bouquet is so intense that they will overpower any simple
fruit.The aftertaste for such a wine can linger for many minutes, and
taking a taste of any food distorts this. These top wines are both food
and wine. Some are so concentrated that you nearly think you could chew
them. The best examples of such wines take many years to many decades to
develop fully, and unfortunately many are opened before they have
integrated and can only hint of what they can become.

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Salut/Hi Jeff

le/on Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:10:29 -0400, tu disais/you said:-

>what are some successful pairings with Trockenbeerenauslese?

If it's any good, nothing at all. It's so full and so powerful and so
perfumed that it would completely overpower any food. FAR too sweet for Foie
Gras IMO.

Serve it on it's own, on your knees and thank the lord for Botrytis Cinerea.

If it's not a good one - don't buy it.

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Some folks enjoy pairing it with any of your blue-veined cheeses.
What's the grape?

hunter wrote:
> what are some successful pairings with Trockenbeerenauslese?
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> Jeff

This wine is more of an apertife..

hunter wrote:
> what are some successful pairings with Trockenbeerenauslese?
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> Jeff


I like strawberries with melted chocolate to dip them in


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Spoken (err! written!) like a true enthusiast of "Little Sweeties"

Salut/Hi st.helier,

le/on Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:44:52 +1200, tu disais/you said:-

>Spoken (err! written!) like a true enthusiast of "Little Sweeties"

Yup, I plead guilty as charged.

I did have some mediocre Trocks about 15, 20 years back, and they convinced
me never to do it again. Out of balance, sometimes with nasty edges. Nope,
weren't for me at all. The whole point of a Trock is that it is sublime.

Which is why I won't muddle things by serving food with it.


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