But what would you pair with a nice tapioca?
We spent the holiday weekend at Kyle's country estate (well, what would you call a house that has its own professional recording studio?) outside of Austin, from which we ventured forth to engage in activities as varied as a half day browse through the Ikea store, a quick visit to the Apple store (more about that later), and a couple of visits to the neighborhood H-E-B grocery store.
While cruising the aisles at the market, this label caught my eye, and I had to share it with you via camera pic:
Now, I'm far from being an oenophile – most of the humor in Sideways escaped me completely – so I'm completely at a loss to concoct a scenario under which one might be charged with writing a description of a recommended wine/food pairing and the comestible that comes to mind would be rice pudding.
OTOH, depending on how you feel about rice pudding (I happen to like it, by the way, and I know at least one other highly intelligent and respected blogger who shares that affection), one definition of hell might be the provision of an infinite supply of the gooey confection along with the charge to find the wine that best accompanies it – with the diabolical twist being the requirement that the wine cost less than $8.
Kind of interesting is the Grape Type - Sparkling but the flavor and aroma is peaches, melon, pear and apricots...
Posted by: lyle at January 2, 2008 10:45 AMBeth, I thought rice pudding is why God invented tequila. ;-)
Lyle, I'm pretty sure that wine is made from fruit cocktail.
Posted by: Eric at January 2, 2008 12:32 PMI thought rice pudding is why God invented tequila.
Rum, my friend, rum. ;-)
I can't imagine anything ruining a nice glass of rice pudding more than wine by any stripe. Gak. I like my rice pudding straight up, actually. But my husband slathers his in rum.
Gotta love the comedians who work at that grocery store though. ;-)
Posted by: gwynne at January 2, 2008 01:56 PMRice pudding... yummalicious.
I like wine too.
Together? Not so much.
Never heard of rice pudding and rum before. Sounds good. It's a shame I don't like rum.
Posted by: Jim at January 2, 2008 02:32 PMAh, so now everyone is a rice pudding aficionado, huh?
I suppose that if Jen and I said we liked jumping off our roofs, ya'll would say you did too. 8-)
Posted by: Eric at January 2, 2008 03:53 PMwe liked jumping off our roofs
Well, doesn't everyone?
Posted by: Jim at January 2, 2008 04:55 PMI jumped off my roof once. ;-)
Posted by: gwynne at January 3, 2008 09:43 AMI would go with a sweet for sweet and do a Zinfandel or a German Riesling. A Spatlese would go well but its expensive.
Posted by: Bill at January 3, 2008 09:49 AMHa! It's nice to which wine I'm supposed to get when I buy my Kozy Shack next time. I'll have to try it.
Now everyone, go jump off a bridge!
Posted by: jen at January 3, 2008 01:43 PMNow everyone, go jump off a bridge!
Oh, no, Jen! Don't encourage them!
Although it sounds like Gwynne is looking not for encouragement but for an excuse. ;-)
Spatlese
See, Bill, I've never even heard of that. That's how clueless I am about wines.
Posted by: Eric at January 3, 2008 03:03 PMAbout the publisher
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Rice pudding is awesome. Though I have to say I've never considered drinking wine with it. I tend to go for a glass of milk.
I'm reminded of the movie French Kiss, where Meg Ryan describes a wine a bold with a hint of sophistication and then, after being told how great a description that was she admits that she was actually just describing herself but that the wine is tasty.
Posted by: beth at January 2, 2008 08:40 AM