Pairings | Pumpkin pie

6 perfect pairings for pumpkin pie

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on November 26 2024 at 10:33

if you’re planning to make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving here are some great wine and other pairings to serve with it.

Pumpkin pie tends to be very sweet and often a little bit spicy which means that it will overwhelm a lot of lighter dessert wines so you might as well go for broke and serve something equally luscious.

Think fortified wines rather than conventional dessert wines ...

Australian Liqueur muscat

So what could be better than a treacley Australian liqueur muscat otherwise known as a sticky? Stanton & Killeen do a great Rutherglen Muscat or try De Bortoli’s Show Liqueur Muscat.

Aussie ‘port’

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