Dinner - Pizza

It's time for our second wine dinner! This week, we made some bold and unusual pairings: mac and cheese with Moscato, pizza with a red blend, and chocolate ice cream with Pinot Noir. 

Mac and Cheese with
Poquito Moscato

We paired our appetizer/side dish with a cute bottle of Poquito Moscato. It had a very slight apple and pear aroma, and I definitely tasted the pear when trying it by itself. The wine was very light and sweet with just the right amount of bubbles. The mac and cheese made the wine slightly sweeter and enhanced its pear flavors, as well as bringing out more fruity flavors I couldn't quite place.

Pizza with Sirpasso Toscano

We paired our main course, pepperoni pizza, with a bottle of Sirpasso Toscano. It had a strong oak aroma with slight cherry and plum notes. By itself, the oak and cherry shone through with a surprisingly light body and slight sweetness. When taken with the pizza, the wine became much more acidic which made for a kind of "bite" that I did not enjoy.

Chocolate Ice Cream with Psyche Pinot Noir

We finished our meal with a surprising pairing of Pinot Noir and chocolate ice cream. This bottle of Pinot Noir had an extremely strong oak and cherry aroma. By itself, it had those same flavors with a hint of pepper or some other spice. I really enjoyed pairing it with the ice cream - it brought out more of the wine's cherry flavor, and since the ice cream melts, it became like a chocolatey wine in my mouth.

Our wine dinner group!