27th Mar 2006
Wine Cellar Sorbets
File under “Labor of Love.” I discovered Wine Cellar Sorbets the other day, so I figured I’d give them a shout out. I was shopping at West Side Market and a guy offered me a taste, so I stopped, and he gave me the whole shpiel, and had me taste all six vintages. Basically, it is sorbet made from real wine, complete with alcohol content (~5%). The wine is from upstate NY, CA or OR, depending on the varietel, and the sorbet is made in a factory in Brooklyn.
It’s a peculiar taste, at first, as it’s not sweet, like you would expect from a sorbet, and the flavor is quite distinctly of wine. I’m not sure it’s an everyday desert, but it would certainly me a distinctive finish to a swell dinner party, and it’s just begging for further interpretation in some fancy compound desert concoction. I wouldn’t be surprised if some snooty restaurant in SoHo or someplace were already on that.
So far its retail availability is limited to just a few gourmet stores in NYC.
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