Sokolin Wines and Sarris Candies
Monthly Pairings of the Finest Wines and Chocolates

A few months ago, we announced our strategic partnership with boutique chocolate company, Sarris Candies, and since then, we’ve brought you only the finest monthly wine & chocolate pairings.

This month, we’ve produced another fantastic pairing for you featuring one of our favorite Sarris products, the Salted Caramels alongside the 2008 Dominus Napanook from Napa Valley. If you’ve ever wondered what a $500+ bottle of wine tastes like, try the 2008 Dominus Napanook. It gives you the chance to taste the pedigree of what a $500+ bottle of wine really tastes like for only $52.99! This wine is a classic Bordeaux blend offering notes of dark fruits, earth and tobacco.

Indulge your senses and awaken your taste buds this winter with this fabulous pairing!

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The Sarris Salted Caramels perfectly combine the union of sweet and salty. Soft and packed with flavor, the Salted Caramels elevate chocolate and caramel to a new level! Choose from a light, sweet cream vanilla caramel with milk chocolate dusted with Himalayan Pink Sea Salt, or select an intensely flavored dark chocolate caramel sprinkled with flecks of Hawaiian Black Sea Salt.

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Have you ever wondered what a $500+ bottle of wine tastes like? The 2008 Dominus Napanook from Napa Valley gives you the opportunity to taste the pedigree of what a $500+ bottle of wine really tastes like for only $52.99! Yes, that’s right - $52.99! From the legendary winemaker of the acclaimed Chateau Petrus in France, Christian Moueix, comes the Dominus Napanook.

The Dominus Estate in Napa Valley provides you with the ability to taste old world winemaking styles from a new world location. This wine is a classic Bordeaux blend with Cabernet Sauvignon making up the majority of the blend with Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc making up the rest. This wine is a stylish classic and can either be consumed young or cellared for later drinking in a decade or two.

Making this pairing was actually a little more difficult than we had anticipated. We had to find a wine that would enhance the flavors of the milk and dark chocolate as well as the caramel centers, but at the same time it had to work well with the pink and black sea salt, which adds a whole different layer of flavors. This is when we decided to go with a robust blend from Napa Valley. A wine we felt would not only have the power and balance to complement the multitude of flavors from the Salted Caramels, but more importantly, enhance the flavors of each. This Napa Valley powerhouse wine offers hints of dark fruits, Kirsch, hints of dark earth and tobacco. The last element that we found in the Napanook was the hints of spice, which was for us the winning factor in this pairing. The wine had enough muscle and balance to harmoniously intermingle with the sweet chocolate and caramel, but it was the wine’s element of dark earth and spice that not only enriched the salt infusion from the caramels but made the flavors linger on the palate for the ultimate enjoyment. We are confident that this wine and chocolate pairing will leave you smiling!

"...blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, the 2008 Napanook is equally seductive. It offers soft, round, silky tannins as well as abundant red and black currant notes intermixed with hints of kirsch, spice box, and unsmoked, high class cigar tobacco. Enjoy it over the next 12-15 years. " - 93 Points Robert Parker

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