Fruit, Cheese and Wine
The season for comic pears is short. If you can find these pears at the grocery store – buy them.They are wonderful – sweet and very juicy! They bruise easily though, so be careful when you’re handling them. Choose fruit that is still firm and after a few days they will be perfect for eating. Mmmm.
Sliced Comice, Stilton Cheese & Ruby Port
Comice is a heavenly sweet pear that is custard-like in texture when ripe. It’s an especially good dessert pear with full-bodied flavor.
Stilton is a very strong blue cheese with a salty, slightly chalky or grainy texture. This cheese will contrast nicely with the sweet and strong Comice pear flavor.
Ruby Port is a rich wine with ripe berry flavors that partner wonderfully with the sweeter pear. The Port’s rich body contrasts with the strong forward texture of the blue cheese.
We recommend:
Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Port
Deep garnet color. Aromas of ripe plums and cherries with a hint of chocolate. Flavors of ripe berries and cocoa with a hint of tobacco and earth. complex, good structure and a long, smooth finish. This wine is always a crowd pleaser – even with those who think port is too sweet. $20 from wine.com.
Comice, Roquefort Cheese & Sauternes
Comice pears are smooth and sweet with full flavors. Roquefort cheese is sharp, rich, musty and has a mellow finish. The wine is bold and tannic with a rich body and smooth finish.
We recommend:
2007 Petit-Vedrines, Sauternes
Straw color. Aromas of pear, honey, stone fruit and a hint of citrus. Flavors of burnt sugar, marmalade and lemon with slight hint of spice. Full fruit finish.
Second label from Doisy-Vedrines. Its first label wine got 94-96 points from Robert Parker for the 2007. This is a great value! Previously $25 at K & L, now $20.
Serving suggestions from pearsusa.com
