The Pairing Library
Profiteroles
Profiteroles combine light choux pastry, cream and a chocolate sauce, and the chocolate decides the wine. It is sweet and faintly bitter, so a dry wine tastes thin and harsh beside it. The wine needs to be at least as sweet, with red fruit or a toffee note that meets the chocolate and enough freshness for the cream.
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