Christmas baking and wine; why not!?

Roland Graf, 30.11.2023

If you only enjoy cookies and croissants with your punch in the run-up to Christmas, you're missing out. After all, the pleasure can be significantly enhanced with precise matching to gingerbread, speculoos and the like. We rummaged through our cookie jar and cellar to find the best combinations for you.

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The combination of cookies and wine has not yet become a real ritual in this country. The Tuscans have a head start on us when they dip their cantuccini in vin santo with relish. Yet Austria, the nation of sweet wines AND pastries, is the one that would be called upon here. The official attempts once made by "Wein Burgenland" to pair Beerenauslese wines in confectioners' shops came to nothing. So you need to be proactive to find the most delicious combinations with vanilla crescents and gingerbread.

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