Dave McIntyre's WineLine: Breakfast Wine for the Morning After

February 10, 2009

Breakfast Wine for the Morning After …

Forget “hair of the dog.” The best breakfast wine can be the same one you finished with the night before. At least, that is, if you washed down dessert with Brachetto d’Acqui or other frothy Italian reds that are ideal with chocolate desserts.

These unassuming wines won’t win philosophical debates or score huge Parker Points. But they score high on my Fun Meter. And they are excellent with chocolate cake, cookies, brownies, ‘Smores, anything that includes a fruit component or sauce.

Here are some of the best, in my February 11 column in The Washington Post.

Happy Valentine’s Day! (Now, it’s up to you to arrange the flowers, the barbershop quartet, or the limo to the restaurant … )

Feb 10, 2009 8:57:21 PM | Italy, Lust, Sparkling Wine

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