Partnering Port

We had a 2006 LBV port from Quinta Vale Dona Maria for the wine dinner I mentioned in the last entry. This was the last wine of the evening and I had ordered a chocolate fondant dessert to pair with it. This turned out to be a good match.

I was also quite keen to see if having port would make blue cheese more palatable for those who had not tried it before, so I had also arranged to serve some Blue Stilton at the same time. I had already blogged some time ago that my wife was converted to the merits of the cheese by presented it to her with some port. It turned out that there were many people that night who take Blue Stilton and so corresponding there were less targets for persuasion. However, few of them had tried the combination before and all had found it delicious.