ABC Stores Blog Wine and Chocolate Pairings

Whether you're celebrating with girlfriends or with your significant other, sweeten your Valentine's Day plans by pairing two holiday staples: chocolate & wine. Available in our ABC Stores is an extensive array of local made chocolates along with fine wine and champagne to help you celebrate Valentine’s Day in Hawaii Nei. Visit one of our store locations today! Basic wine and chocolate pairing rules: The wine should be as sweet as the chocolate. Begin pairing by color. The darker the chocolate, the darker the wine. When possible, opt for a high quality chocolate bar. Consider texture as well as taste. Belle Glos Las Alturas Vineyard Pinot Noir Pinot Noir from Santa Lucia Highlands, Monterey, Central Coast, California Deep purple garnet in color, this wine has overflowing aromas of sun-ripened cherries, sweet plums, hints of cola, and white pepper. The palate is complex and rich, packed with dark fruit flavors of blackberry and cherry. This wine is a full and intense expression of Pinot Noir, well balanced with toasted oak and vibrant acidity on the finish. Veuve Clicquot Brut Rose Rosé Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France The wine has a luminous color with attractive pink glints. The nose is generous and elegant, with initial aromas of fresh red fruit (raspberry, wild strawberry, cherry, and blackberry), leading to biscuity notes of dried fruits and Viennese pastries (almonds, apricots and brioche). Decoy Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon from Sonoma County, California From its deep, inviting color to its enticing layers of boysenberry, blackberry, plum and star anise, this wine showcases what we love about great Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon. On the palate, the lush fruit flavors are framed by rich tannins and hints of dark chocolate and barrel spice. Meiomi Pinot Noir Pinot Noir from California A rich garnet color with a ruby edge, the wine opens to reveal lifted fruit aromas of bright strawberry and jammy fruit, mocha, and vanilla, along with toasty oak notes. Expressive boysenberry, blackberry, dark cherry, juicy strawberry, and toasty mocha flavors lend complexity and depth on the palate. The well-integrated oak provides structure and depth seldom seen in Pinot Noir.