Wine pairings for
Here are 3 recommended wine pairings for eton mess. Click the button below to explore all options on the Verso app.
Moscato d'Asti
Moscato d'Asti (Muscat à Petits Grains from Piedmont, Asti method at 5.5° and 100g/L residual sugar) — peach, sweet orange, rose and light bubbles echo the strawberries of British Eton mess; table-grape Muscat character prolonging fork-crushed gariguette or wild strawberries, rose doubling the optional edible rose petals, bubbles lifting thick Chantilly and meringue.
Sauternes
Sauternes (botrytised Sémillon-Sauvignon-Muscadelle on Bordeaux graves) — acacia honey, candied apricot, mango and Botrytis noble rot form the fine-dining match for upscale Eton mess; honey directly answering the sweetened strawberry coulis, botrytis echoing meringues dried 2h at 90°C, 130g/L sweetness holding thick 35%-fat vanilla Chantilly.
Champagne Rosé
Rosé Champagne (Pinot Noir-Chardonnay blended as rosé d'assemblage or saignée, traditional method 15-36 months on lees) — strawberry, raspberry, autolytic brioche and fine bubbles accompany the festive side of Eton mess; strawberry directly mirroring the British dessert's gariguettes, raspberry prolonging the red coulis, fine bubbles aerating mousseline Chantilly and slicing sweet meringues.