The day before the New York Chocolate Show I was at Barbao on the Upper West Side and noticed they were featuring Quady Essensia dessert wine on their menu. This was great news because these are two of my favorite purveyors of dessert products. Barbao has unique and very delicious desserts made to order and Quady makes some of the best dessert wines in the US. When I visited the show I got to chat with Andrew Quady and I asked him why his Essensia orange muscat dessert wine goes so well with chocolate and desserts.
If you think dessert wine isn’t for you I urge you to give it a chance as that is what I used to think. I realized that it can actually be a great compliment to dark chocolate or other special desserts. This comes from someone who does not typically drink wine with dinner.
The Vietnamese Chocolate bread pudding at Barbao went great with small glass of Essensia.
