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How about some California ports - Heitz Grignoglino (sp?) is very nice with dessert and not a killer pricewise. Don't know if it's available in KS.

I love the thread drift too. Cakebread. Of course. It never even occured to ... chocolate cake for my wife's birthday. Or what about orange? Or coconut/pineapple? Or spice? Or cherry? Or vanilla? Not that any of...

Foxy Red from Kit Fox Winery is the best chocolate wine I have ever had.

Chip, just thinking about E.P. makes my teeth hurt.

lol @ the thread drift. I realized just how wrong I was when the solution was reached. Thought the question was more along the lines of pairing a wine with a cake- rather than the name of a wine with the name of a cake....

...thread drift? That's putting it mildly. You guys gotta cut back on your sugar intake or something. Speaking of which... Green & Black's Hazelnut & Currant Chocolate bar...

And then again, chocolate is probably best with coffee. But I still think a powerful (if expensive) Cakebread Cab would actually go quite well with chocolate cake - if the cake is not too, too sweet. As to the German...

If you guys are talking specifically about wine with chocolate, I've never found anything I like, with the possible exception of a Cahors Black Wine, or fortifieds like a Banyuls or certain ports. I'm serious about my...

Also, a good Canadian Eiswein (Niagra especially) would work admirably - and there are a number of red examples that are quite good if a bit eccentric. Inniskillin has made a number of very creditable such wines...

A rich, sweet Mosel of the Beerenauslese (very sweet), Auslese (sweet), Spätelese (semi-sweet) would indeed work. I have tried this with Belgian, Swiss and Austrian truffles...