Wine Guerilla Zinfandel
When Debbie and I were choosing wine to go with my Dark Chocolate Pudding, she mentioned that wine served with dessert should be at least as sweet as the dessert, so port wine seemed an obvious choice to her. Now I like Debbie, and I like a glass of wine with a little somethin’ sweet at the end of my meal, but I don’t like that wine to be sweet. So, as a compromise, we picked two wines to taste with my velvety rich pudding. It is the holiday season after all.
What I do like with my dessert, especially if it’s chocolate (is there any other respectable kind of dessert?), is a big, ripe, fruity zinfandel. To satisfy my predilection the friendly folks at Cellar Rat suggested Wine Guerrilla’s 2009 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel. According to Wine Guerrilla’s website, the wine is 88% zinfandel from two old vine vineyards blended with 12% petite sirah.
Wine Guerrilla calls itself, “The art and soul of zinfandel,” (and they have cool arty labels) and my soul loved the way the spiciness and tannins in this particular zin cut through the creamy sweetness of the pudding, and also how the wine’s ripe fruit played the edge with the bitter dark chocolate. Red wine and dark chocolate: art and soul.
I also liked Debbie’s port with my pudding. Hell, I even liked Glori’s coffee beer with it! But what I enjoyed the most was my glass of zin. Sometimes more isn’t necessarily better. When it comes to sweetness, I think a little dab will do ya.
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