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Post Subject: Getting just dessertsPosted by de charlus on: 8/6/2013

There was no dessert wine per se during the Bolly meal; just ascending richness and intensity, coupled with a body so full as to be atypical even for a butch Champagne house like Bollinger. To my mind, Sauternes should be consumed with either Roquefort Papillon Noir, or Foie Gras torchon; these are pairings practically symphonic, and you're right, to pair something like an d'Yquem or Muller Eiswein with dessert - and perish the thought that it contains chocolate - is to overwhelm the dessert and clutter the wine's palate to no good end. So perfect are these synergies that it seems almost churlish to trifle with anything else. Much thought should be given to musical accompaniment, but the food/wine pairing itself is child's play, giving harmonies so wondrous, yet so perfectly obvious, that it makes little sense to go elsewhere. Wouldn't the crowning irony be the female partner who refuses to eat the ambrosia that is foie gras on moral grounds? Just like the anti-pipe fascists:-)

de Charlus

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