Wine and chocolate: a family affair
A group of nine Côtes-de-l’Orbes wine producers are presenting their wines at the Caveau de Romainmôtier, along with chocolates from Pascale Philippe’s chocolate shop Passionnément Chocolat in Yverdon-les-Bains.
In college I used to buy dark chocolate and a good bottle of Bordeaux and go to the local art cinema to consume all three together, so I was excited to learn that someone had finally decided to “marry” chocolate and red wine in the form of a tasting.
For the Côtes-de-l’Orbes wine tasting, Pascale Philippe and the wine producers carefully chose an assortment that would fit the tastes of everyone, adults and children alike. After all we’re in Switzerland, and we all know our chocolate, so the assortment has to be large if it wants to meet the tastes of everyone. The selection is varied, and includes 10 different chocolates:
- 40.5% Ghana
- 70% Venezuela
- 85% Abinao
- Orange ganache
- Salt caramel ganache
- Praline with pine nuts and citons confits
- Crunchy feuillantine praline
- Jasmine-flavored praline
- Chunky chocolate pavé flavored with Raisinée, a fruit-flavored fortified wine originally from around Fribourg
- Pepper-flavored carré
The wine producers came up with four different “formulas”:
Gourmet tasting: Formule Dégustation
With this offer, for CHF9, you can taste 0.5 dl of two different wines and mix it with a selection of four different chocolates.
Chocolate lovers tasting: Formule Gourmandise
This formula lets you taste 0.5 dl of three different wines and taste six different chocolates for CHF15.
Duo tasting: Formule Duo
Several people can share this formula. You choose 0.5 dl of eight different wines and try them with 20 different chocolates for CHF40.
Formula for children and teenagers: Formule jeune
What’s really special about this is that you can bring the whole family. This wine tasting doesn’t have to be an all-adult affair. The Formule jeune lets under-18ers taste four different chocolates and two different artisanal juices from the region for CHF6.
If you’re not interested in the chocolate, you can of course just taste the wines, along with a selection of sausage and ham or on their own.