food match for eiswein

Nothing at all - just enjoy the wine and quit trying to gild the lily (or 'to gild refined gold, to paint the lily' - just to stave off any Shakespeare purists out there).

There are some wines that will only be harmed by trying to match them with food and many of these are sweet wines. I have done extensive matching with Yquem, for instance, but in the end, quite frankly, it is better not to bother.

I like melon.

I agree that Eiswein is best by itself. Though a 1989 Gysler Weinheimer Holle Eiswein (Rheinhessen) matched well with (parts of) a cheese platter, and another bottle of the same at an offline apparently went well with tarte tatin (others reported, I'm not a dessert guy)

I feel the same re older Sauternes (not enough Yquem experience, but with most I feel solo is way to go). I like younger Sauternes with blues or foie gras.

As an aside, though the Gyslers I mentioned were mine, while I adore older TBAs and BAs, I prefer my Eiswein young ( and from vintages where boytrytis wasn't prevalent).

Dale

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I rather like papaya with sweet Rieslings.

Tom S

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Merciful of you Bill. There are people who live, it seems, to carp about things like that. Many thanks.

A. E. Housman once declined to reveal the sequence of a group of poems he had written because, he said, of the many people who would then "claim to have known it all along."

-- The faults of [Bentley's edition of Manilius], which are abundant, are the faults of Bentley's other critical works. He was impatient, he was tyrannical, he was too sure of himself. Hence he corrupts sound verses which he will not wait to understand, alters what offends his taste without staying to ask about the taste of Manilius, plies his desperate hook upon corruptions which do not yield at once to gentler measures, and treats the MSS. much as if they were fellows of Trinity. -- Housman (Preface, Manilius I, 1903)

The perfect scenario for me is as an after-dinner drink. It's a great dessert all on its own.

-Cherie

I didn't know that.

Thanks! Delightful ;-)