Happy Hour: Holiday Dessert Pairings (Part II)
JBF Editors
For those who are looking to make the holidays even merrier, we asked Bernie Sun, corporate beverage director of JBF Award winner Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s restaurants, to suggest affordable wine pairings for the season’s classic desserts.
For our second installment, we asked Sun to recommend the perfect pairing for gingerbread cake or cookies. His pick? Disznókó Tokaji Late Harvest 2011 ($22/500ml). "This special Hungarian sweet wine, made from botrytised Furmint grapes, offers notes of honey, lemon cake, and beeswax, all excellent accompaniments to ginger," he explains.
To whip up a similar dessert, try this recipe for ginger cookies. Happy holidays!