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What wine to pair with cherry desserts

Posted on June 9 2020 at 07:05

Cherry is one of the fruit flavours most often found in wine and liqueurs so does that make them a good pairing for cherry desserts? It depends how intense the cherry flavour is.

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Chocolate and cherry roulade

Posted on October 14 2013 at 09:26

To celebrate Chocolate Week here's one of my favourite recipes for a chocolate and cherry roulade which comes from my book An Appetite for Ale. Unusually it contains two different types of beer! You can obviously leave one of them out though a cherry beer is the perfect pairing with it.

Tags: recioto della Valpolicella drink:sweet & fortified wine cherry beer Kriek drink:beer & cider cherry cherries food:fruit chocolate roulade chocolate food:desserts & cakes
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