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extraordinary.
People had been telling me about this mysterious chocolate wine for months, but I never got around to tasting it. Gimmick-y, I thought. Finally, after dozens of people brought it to my attention, I figured there must be something to it.
Noche is chocolate wine. Yes, my dears, chocolate wine. No, not wine to drink with chocolate but chocolate-tasting wine.
Now, I know you wine purists out there will be rolling your eyes at me (again) but to both of you I say, Noche will win more wine medals this year than even the creamiest, double oak-y chardonnay from California.
Noche means night in Italian, and this gorgeously purple wine is as dark as a starless night. It’s rich and fragrant, but without that ubersweet taste and syrup-y texture that many dessert wines unfortunately possess.
Noche is smooth as silk, mildly reminiscent of a wellaged port, although you wouldn't call it a port. Noche could. I suppose, stand in nicely for port when there’s none in the house and you're in the midst of a recipe that calls for port.
What Noche calls itself is a sweet, Virginia table wine, but just like I wouldn't call it a port, 1 wouldn’t call it a table wine either, because its alcohol content teeters in at 13.1 percent, much more than table wines typically contain. Whatever it is, Noche is good. Very good In fact, it’s so gold that the first bottle goes down much too easily and much too quickly
Noche’s taste is haunting.
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