Chocolate & Wine Gift: Milk and Dark Chocolate Pairing

Description

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this elegant gift box experience allows you and your loved ones to experience the magic that happens when you pair wine and chocolate. We’ve specifically chosen these two wines for the surprising ways they work together with the chocolate, complementing the flavours and bringing out the best in both the wine and bars.

The pairings:

• Hogarth – Buttered Toast and Sea Salt (Milk) with Corney & Barrow – Naranjo Torontel Loncomilla Maturana Wines 2020
• Bare Bones – Sambirano Valley, Madagascar, Dark 70% with Corney & Barrow – Hawequas Mont Du Toit 2017

Hogarth – Buttered Toast and Sea Salt, Milk 48%

It’s a morning ritual for Hogarth’s founders to start their day with a piece of rye toast and pure New Zealand butter. Using classic Vogels Original bread and sumptuous butter, they’ve put that savoury and salty feast into a chocolate bar.

Corney & Barrow – Naranjo Torontel Loncomilla Maturana Wines 2020

This refreshing orange wine is grown in the Maule Valley in Chile, and is matured (skin contact) in concrete eggs for 8-10 months after 8 days of skin contact fermentation. We tasted sharp notes of marmalade, apricots, and peaches.

Bare Bones – Sambirano Valley, Madagascar Dark 70%

A wonderfully fruity bar, this rich dark chocolate has none of the bitterness you might expect from a 70% dark bar. Look out for notes of maple syrup, cherry, and raspberry.

Corney & Barrow – Hawequas Mont Du Toit 2017

Grown in the Western Cape of South Africa, this smooth and fruity red wine is matured for 14-16 months in French oak barrels. We tasted earthy notes of cherries, red berries, and plums.