MORE ABOUT
CHOCOLATE ORANGE WINE:
Here are some suggestions from our customers:
Try It Over:
- Fine vanilla ice cream.
- Sliced mangoes and ice
cream.
- Orange sherbet.
- Angel food cake.
- Angel food cake with strawberries.
- Cheesecake.
- Shortcake.
- Biscotti.
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Flourless chocolate cake.
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Gingerbread.
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- Lady fingers.
- Crepes.
- A dessert soufflé.
- Cream puffs.
- Meringue cookies.
- Pancakes or waffles.
- Biscuits or buns.
- Fresh pears.
- Poached pears.
- A friend.
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FOR DIPPING:
- Strawberries.
- Bananas.
- Frozen sections Mandarin oranges.
- Stemmed cherries.
- Maraschino cherries.
- Wine crackers.
OR:
When you can't get anymore out of the bottle,
add whipped cream and shake, or immerse the bottle in hot water to make the chocolate more
liquid.
The Chocolate Orange should be practically
indestructible; a bar of baking chocolate in the pantry would last forever; this has
alcohol and a glass enclosure. But you never know what someone may do with wine.
The only complaint I’ve ever had was solidification in the bottle; there is that much
chocolate. They probably put it in the refrigerator; it does not need to be
refrigerated and should not be. Most people just leave it around the kitchen until
it is finished some day.
Had a lady call me from Montana who had left a partial bottle of Chocolate in her
basement that she forgot about for eight years! I said, “You didn’t taste it did
you?” She said, “Yes, it was wonderful.” And ordered some more. I don’t suggest that.
The challenge of the Chocolate Orange was to suspend the chocolate in the orange wine
without using emulsifiers or other artificial junk. If that were Hershey’s chocolate,
it would all fall to the bottom of the bottle, and, taste like sand going down. So
the three challenges were the suspension of the chocolate, the mouth feel, and the
flavor. The permutations of that are outrageous. If I lose another chocolate, may not
be able to do it again.
Further instructions: The viscosity of the wine changes somewhat from small batch to
small batch, therefore, the added instructions (that no one seems to pay attention to
anyway.) On the bottle it says, “shake” before serving just in case there is a separation
of wine and chocolate. Then, after serving, I suggest putting the bottle away in the
cupboard UPRIGHT, so that if you forget it for eight years, you can open the cork and
look in there. If there is liquid wine on the surface, and that wine smells like an old
oxidized bottle of wine, you can pour that little bit off and shake up the rest of it.
Or, it may not smell oxidized, and you could shake it up. Or, it may have no wine on the
surface, and you can shake it up anyway. Most people don’t pay any attention to that, but
that is my advice.
About the Label:
The label is an ancient Dutch flag. My dad came from Holland. He said that
if that flag was flying with the red disc in the corner, it meant that the
Prince of Orange was in residence at the palace. I appropriately changed the
red disc here to an orange. A Dutchman in the other day said that the
monarchy still uses that ancient flag on their yachts and things.
If you have other questions, e-mail me or call me.
Thanks for listening.
PRAISE FROM THE MEDIA!
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SUSAN HAUSER in The New York Times
“chocolate orange wine” — “My sweet tooth satisfied”
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NICK TOMASSI in Wine Press Northwest Winter ‘03
“Chocolate-Orange whey wine, a thick, delicious blend of six European chocolates that
is reminiscent of the chocolate-orange candies prevalent aroung the holidays.”
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JERRY HAINES in The Washington Post
“Shallon Winery’s chocolate orange wine is lucious, a liquid bonbon whose flavor satisfies
the sweet tooth but stops well short of cloying.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Unconventional as they sound, they all are delicious, particularly the chocolate orange” —
“with six kinds of chocolate from four countries. It’s a bonbon in a bottle.”
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PETER MARSH in Freshwater Boating News
“a rich whey wine in the style of a liqueur-son of a liquid chocolate truffle to be served
with or over anything”
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CAROL PUCCI in The Seattle Times
“a chocolate-orange concoction as thick as syrup.”
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M. L. LYKE in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“as silky and satisfying as a custom-made truffle”
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T. JANOWITZ in Food & Wine
“had at least another 40 ideas for what to do with (it)”
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TIM PAWSEY in The Vancouver Courier (BC)
“Chocolate/Orange whey wine, which has the consistency of liquified truffles and the
finish of a liqueur”
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National Geographic Driving Guides to America Pacific Northwest
“a thick brown mixture that almost prompts visitors to reach for a spoon.”
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Frommer’s© Oregon
“amazing chocolate-orange wine, a thick nectar that will make a chocoholic of anyone.”
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LET’S Go® Travel Guide Pacific Northwest
“kingdom of fantastic wines” — “chocolate orange wine is quite the decadent liqueur”
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