Chocolate and Wine
Gift Basket Ideas

A Match Made in Heaven or a Pairing Disaster?

Sparkling Wine & Chocolate Celebration - $60.00
from: All About Gifts & Baskets

Wine & Chocolate Sampler - $40.00
from: All About Gifts & Baskets

Red Wine and Assorted Chocolate - $155.95
from: Gifting Inc

Red Wine Chocolate and Fruits - $155.95
from: Gifting Inc

Quality Gift of Wine and Chocolate - $57.95
from: Gifting Inc

When choosing a chocolate and wine gift basket whether you design the basket yourself or choose a specially designed gift basket, the key is to match the right chocolate flavors to the right wine characteristics. If the chocolate is sweeter than the wine, the flavors will take on a bitter taste. Pair the weight and feel of the flavors of the chocolate to the wine. In other words big bold chocolate flavors should be paired with those same qualities in wine. Creamy chocolates pair best with lighter bodied wines.

A dark or bittersweet chocolate would be a good match for a bold Syrah, Zinfandel or Port. Quality milk chocolate pairs well with Merlot, Pinot Noir and sweet dessert wines. White chocolate is a good match to a Sherry or a sweet Moscato. When choosing a chocolate and wine gift basket, you may not have the option to pair the right chocolates to the right wine. While you can rest assured the wines and chocolates in a basket have been paired to bring out the best flavors, here are a few tips and ideas.

The chocolate & wine pairing rules don’t apply as much to Sparkling wines or dessert wines so you have a little more freedom to choose what you like. Wine.com offers a Veuve Cliquot & Godiva with Blossom Gift Wrap basket. Veuve Clicquot Demi-Sec has hints of peach, nectarine and orange blossom. The Godiva is an assortment of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, truffles, pralines and decadent ganache. 800wine.com offers a Chocolate Wine Gift Basket containing two bold red wines and an assortment of Ghirardelli chocolates. Design it Yourself Gifts & Baskets offers a Dom Perignon Greetings Wine Gift Basket. Included with the bottle of Dom are Ghirardelli chocolates and Lindt petits.

Ever wonder how to read the product numbers listed on higher end gourmet chocolates? Here’s a breakdown: 99% - 85% cocoa is Unsweetened or Bitter chocolate, this is best saved for baking. 84% - 35% is considered Bittersweet and 34% - 15% is Semisweet or Sweet chocolate. Milk chocolate made with milk contains 10% chocolate liquor.

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With just a little knowledge you can select the right wine and chocolate bar for a delicious and perfect gift basket and ship it directly to your lucky person.

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