Wine pairings for
Here are 3 recommended wine pairings for poire belle helene. Click the button below to explore all options on the Verso app.
Banyuls
Banyuls (Grenache Noir fortified to 16°, terraced schist vineyards facing the Mediterranean at Collioure-Cerbère) — candied cherry, bitter cocoa, coffee and fig form the perfect match for Belle-Hélène's melted dark chocolate; sweet chocolate doubling the chocolate-cream sauce poured over vanilla-syrup-poached pear, candied cherry balancing 70% cocoa bitterness, sweetness holding Bourbon vanilla ice cream.
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 non-saturated bubbles bring airy contrast to Belle-Hélène's melted chocolate; table-grape Muscat character echoing the juicy poached pear, 5.5° alcohol not amplifying 70% cocoa bitterness, bubbles lifting the chocolate-cream sauce.
Sauternes
Sauternes (botrytised Sémillon-Sauvignon-Muscadelle on Barsac and Sauternes graves) — acacia honey, candied apricot, mango and Botrytis noble rot accompany this fine-dining poached pear-chocolate dessert; honey answering the luscious chocolate sauce, candied aromas prolonging vanilla-syrup-poached pear, 130g/L sweetness holding the Madagascar vanilla ice cream.