Chocolate Bunnies

There is a wine that goes with hollow or solid chocolate bunnies. It is delicious with flourless chocolate cakes. It is wonderful with one of those Death by Suicide Chocolate Layer Frosted Ganache Chocolatey Chocolate Cakes. The grape is called Brachetto.

Grown in the Piedmont region of Italy, Brachetto is a variety of grape that is made into a fascinatingly different wine. It is only 5% alcohol. About the same as a beer. We get the American word "Fizzy" from this style of wine the Italians call Frizzante. It tastes like roses and raspberries. It is sweet, but not cloying sweet. And it is awesome with chocolate.

Brachetto does fizz up in your glass. Use a regular wine glass and serve the wine chilled. Brachetto is opened with a regular corkscrew, there is not enough pressure to make the wine "pop." After that, there is nothing regular about the wine. Yummy with Sunday brunch as well as those chocolatey thingies, I love to serve it to wine geeks to see their reaction.

Presently at the store we carry the Alasia brand for $14.99 a full bottle. The most popular brand is Rosa Regale from Banfi. We don't carry this one. And we hope to get back the $19.99 Brachetto from Beppe Marino, if I can only remember who I bought it from.

In my youth, I loved to bite off the ears of the chocolate bunny first. Primarily to see if it was hollow or solid. Not that the ears tasted better, like my wise-%^& cousin told me.