Best Value
Angove Long Row Moscato 2024
Riverland, SA
$11.17per bottle
$134.00 for 12 × 750ml
Cellars
Food & wine pairing
Best wine with chocolate and dessert
The wine should be sweeter than the dessert.
How are you cooking it?
Moscato
Light, sweet and gently fizzy. Great with fruit desserts and pavlova.
- Lighter than the dish: best with a lighter version of it
- Fresh acidity lifts the flavours and cleans up each bite
- The dish is sweeter than the wine, which can make it taste sharp
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Best Value
Full Swing Moscato 2025
SA
$12.92per bottle
$155.00 for 12 × 750ml
Cellars
Best Value
Deakin Estate Azahara Sparkling Moscato NV
Riverina, WA
$13.17per bottle
$158.00 for 12 × 750ml
Cellars
Best Value
Pete's Pure Moscato NV
Murray Darling, NSW
$13.67per bottle
$164.00 for 12 × 750ml
Cellars
Dessert wine
Botrytis Semillon and late-harvest styles suit cheesecake and tarts.
- Same weight as the dish, so neither drowns the other
- Fresh acidity lifts the flavours and cleans up each bite
- At least as sweet as the dish, so it won’t taste thin
Why it works Dish Wine
Weightrichness vs body
Aciditytang vs freshness
Fat / tanninfat softens grip
Sweetnessdish vs wine
Sparkling Shiraz
An Aussie original. Fruity, fizzy and fun with chocolate.
- Same weight as the dish, so neither drowns the other
- Fresh acidity lifts the flavours and cleans up each bite
- The dish is sweeter than the wine, which can make it taste sharp
Why it works Dish Wine
Weightrichness vs body
Aciditytang vs freshness
Fat / tanninfat softens grip
Sweetnessdish vs wine
Tip
Sweeter dessert, sweeter wine. Serve dessert wines chilled in small glasses.
Best avoided
Dry wine with sweet dessert tastes thin and sour.
About chocolate and dessert and wine
Today’s picks run from $11.17 to $18.42 a bottle, chosen for value from 24 matching wines across the Australian retailers we compare. Six-packs and dozens are shown as a price per bottle.
Questions
What wine goes best with chocolate and dessert?
Fortified (tawny, muscat, port style), Moscato and Dessert wine are the best matches for chocolate and dessert. Rutherglen muscat and tawny with dark chocolate or sticky date pudding is hard to beat.
What’s a good cheap wine with chocolate and dessert?
Angove Long Row Moscato 2024 is the cheapest of today’s picks at $11.17 a bottle from Cellars. Prices are checked every 4 hours.
What wine should I avoid with chocolate and dessert?
Dry wine with sweet dessert tastes thin and sour.