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Matcha Gelato wine paring emergency... HALP!

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  1. ColdCb7Driver

    ColdCb7Driver Rookie

    Oct 18, 2008
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    Well first post here, I'm a largely inactive lurker at best, I never intended to post on this site but sometimes... things happen... and well I'm not about to post this on a honda or porsche forum :p

    ME:
    budget? under $75/bottle for "something special"
    wine experience? 2/10
    beer experience? 3/10
    sensibility? all over the place.

    SITUATION:
    I need wine advice, it can be fortified, adulterated in any way, it's getting to be that time of the year anyways, should also be drinkable for more then the taste test experience.

    I am charged with providing the dessert and the wine for a dorm room dinner party, the "dinner party" has shrank to me and one cute girl, who is preparing the food, the food is a complete mystery, the desert is Matcha (green tea) Gelato, (think: Japanese tea ceremony meets italian passion) that I spent all day yesterday making from scratch. Since additional company is likely to show up for drinks and ice cream later in the evening but not for food, I need something that will go with the matcha quite well. This stuff is fairly rich, could probably kill you in 4 years if you ate it every day, 2l of table cream, a dozen egg yolks , lots of suger and enough caffeine from the tea to give me a decent buzz are in there. and it's also hand made with a spoon and a metal bowl and a regular freezer so it's quite dense and not so airy. (yeah, yeah,yeah feel free to educate me on the finer points of Gelato if you must, it's only my second time)

    So what will taste good on a frozen palate overwhelmed with sugar , fat and viriditas and keep tasting good for a few hours afterward?

    I'd *really* like to pick something produced in here in BC Canada to round out wildly unbalanced regionality (she will probably cook something fairly asian) (icewine? sherry?)

    maybe I should just break down, forget about trying to be canadian and get some Plum wine.

    I am also open to beer suggestions

    And please provide at least the illusion of reasoning so that I may be tempted by your suggestion.

    Oh and I have about an hour to decide.
     
  2. El Wayne

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    #2 El Wayne, Nov 15, 2009
    Last edited: Nov 15, 2009
    My suggestion is something fortified and sweet so that it won't taste bitter compared to the gelato. Oloroso will work. Maybe even a cream sherry or amoroso (even sweeter versions of oloroso). Not sure how these will pair with the flavor of green tea though.
     

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