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Wine and chocolate

Its Easter and its time for chocolate! In Norway all the kids (and some adults) get chocolate in their cute easter eggs every morning from Thursday to Monday. These are also the days all Norwegians are off work and in their cabins by the coast or up in the mountains.

We tried red wine with chocolate at Waterford Estate on our South Africa tour which was very interesting. Dry Shiraz can be drunk with certain chocolates, but the best match is I must admit drinking sweet red wine!

Up to now our favourite combination has been Recioto della Valpolicella, which is basically dried grapes on a loft (used also for Amorone strong big dry red) converted into sweet red wine. The wine comes from Veneto in Italy.

On our wine visit to South Africa, we obtained some bottles from Lynx winery with no lable. These were "sweet Lynx" which was basically some Shiraz grapes that had been left on the vines. After some months they were more like raisins, but the active owner created some half bottles of red wine from the raisins in order not to waste anything. The wine has a beautiful lovely sweet taste and is a perfect match to all the chocolates "kids" get at Easter.

Unfortunately now label picture this time, because as I said there are no labels on the bottles.....
but again P++ to Lynx, this time also for innovation!

Happy Easter!
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