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Irish Times
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Wine with ice cream? It's all the rage and works way better than you think
The short answer is: yes, of course you can. You should always feel free to drink wine any way you please. Now pairing wine with ice cream seems to be a growing trend on social media. It's a Gen Z thing apparently. TikTok and Instagram are going crazy with people mixing ice cream with wine in the same glass. Does a red wine milkshake sound appealing? Or a 'float' of white ice cream in a glass of Chablis? Apparently, it started with Folderol, an establishment in Paris that sells scoops of ice cream in vintage metal coupes alongside natural wine. With an eclectic range of oolong tea, carrot cake, fig hibiscus or spicy melon, the choice of ice cream seems endless. Now ice cream parlour and wine bars are popping up in London and New York. I am very fond of both ice cream and wine, but rarely enjoy the two together. Ice cream is sweet and wine is usually dry, so surely the two won't mix? I do like wine sorbets, but they don't contain cream. READ MORE Most wine drinkers will automatically pair a dessert of any kind with a sweet wine of some sort; Sauternes with fruit tarts, Port with chocolate desserts. There is a traditional wine and ice cream mix of very sweet Pedro Ximénez sherry with vanilla ice cream – a delicious hedonistic mix of cream, raisins, figs and dates. I bought a half a dozen tubs of ice cream and conducted my own experiments. The best matches did involve sweet wines, although there were a few nice surprises with red wines. If you want to try mixing red wine with ice cream, I would suggest a merlot or pinot noir, both of which have lighter tannins. My red wine went best with a raspberry ice cream. My four favourite matches were as follows: Sauternes with Supervalu Signature Passion Fruit Ice Cream. I suspect that any fruit ice cream would go well with Sauternes, Moscato d'Asti, or an off-dry Riesling. PX Sherry with vanilla ice cream was excellent; Chocolate Fudge Brownie was nice but not as good as the vanilla. Tawny Port went really well with the Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Ben & Jerry's Brookies too. Raspberry ice cream with a light, ripe pinot noir. Lastly, my siblings swear by vanilla ice cream with a small dose of whiskey and freshly ground pepper.
Sky News AU
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Wild wine and ice cream trend takes London and Paris by storm: 'Surely no one in their right mind'
Is this the most disgusting wine trend of all? Wine with ice cream is trending in Paris. And despite the sniggers from the wine elites, Gen Z-ers can't seem to get enough of it. There are long queues outside Folderol 'Vins et Glaces' bar in the hip 11th arrondissement. There are wildly different combinations: fruity red wines are served with chocolate ice cream while sauternes are recommended as a match for the coconut ice cream. Surely the combination of sangiovese or shiraz with chocolate ice creams is too much of a good thing? Perhaps it's not such a bad idea after all, say some sommeliers. Folderol was swamped by TikTokkers from the day it opened and had to engage security guards to manage the crowds. And it banned TikTok filming for safety and privacy reasons. The wine with ice cream craze has quickly spread to London and I have no doubt it will soon arrive Down Under. In England, The Dreamery opened at Islington, London and again a TikTok contagion turned a humble artisanal ice cream parlour into a lick and slurp tourist attraction. Folderol offers unusual ice cream flavours like fig shortcake, nectarine and hibiscus. Critics in London are divided on the whole idea of pairing ice cream with wine. The top wine critic Victoria Moore said she liked tawny port with millionaire's ice cream - where the vanilla ice cream is covered with salted caramel sauce and coated in milk chocolate and served with crunchy biscuit chunks. And she says Pedro Ximenez sherry ('reminiscent of molasses: dark, viscous and very sweet') could be served affogato-style with the PX replacing the coffee. Pedro Ximenez has been the dessert wine happily served in Australia alongside a Scottish toffee and raisin pudding with vanilla ice cream - but not tipped on top of it, surely. Puddings like this would equally be enlivened with classical Australian muscat like those made by Campbells of Rutherglen. A surprising red wine pairing was pinot noir with chocolate and cherry flavoured ice creams. But surely no one in their right mind would pollute their fine burgundy with ice cream. Ms Moore said sweeter wines are a more comfortable match, and sugary food and spätlese riesling will work. 'It has notes of nectarines and sweet apple which meld with the peach melba. Also lovely with apple ice cream or sorbet,' she wrote in The Telegraph. Prosecco lovers would not miss out. Marco Leanza, who runs a family pizza restaurant, Dough, in Bath in England says sgroppino cocktails are popular there. It's a drink originally from Venice and now served all over Italy where prosecco is mixed with lemon sorbet. Leanza adds vodka 'for that extra kick.' Now that is a simple recipe to try at home. A popular New York food blog, NewSuperVinoBros, recently focused on wine and ice cream and in a video on Instagram they paired ploussard wine with Honey Lavender ice cream. Ploussard from France is also known as peloussard and delivers delicate, pale, floral reds with rosehip and hibiscus, and watermelon notes. It comes from Jura, a department in the eastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté known for its breathtaking scenery with vine-clad slopes and finger lakes. Sommelier Federica Zanghirella from the UK Sommelier Association is more sceptical about wine and ice cream matches. She believes it is impossible to match all wine with ice cream due to the temperature of ice cream that will impact the wine flavours. 'Cold brings out the 'hard' parts of wine — the acidity, savouriness, tannins and bubbles. Those sensations can be too sharp if the wine is made cold in the mouth by ice cream, the taste can be unpleasant,' she told reporters. Ms Moore said her star match was given to her by a colleague who recommended hand making the ice cream and matching it with sauternes, the famous French sticky from Sauternes, a small sub-region of Bordeaux. Sauternes' fruit flavours with hints of pineapple with crystallised fruit and saffron works brilliantly with coconut ice cream, she reported. Perhaps coconut ice cream may be one to try with our own leading dessert wine De Bortoli Noble One that shows orange blossom honey, apricot marmalade and toffee flavours and aromas.
Telegraph
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Five surprising wine and ice cream pairings
Ice cream and wine? Both offer hedonistic experiences, but not usually at the same time. Even putting the two words in the same sentence feels like a clash of two different moments: a lazy Saturday afternoon on the beach flopping sandily into an evening in a sleek city bar, perhaps. Millions of Gen Z-ers would disagree with this assessment: ice cream and wine pairings are lighting up TikTok at the moment as the craze for matching the perfect scoop with its ideal glass goes viral. The New York-based SuperVinoBros, who have a following of 132,000 and bill themselves as 'Twins drinking wine' recently posted testing out a match between poulsard (a trendy red grape variety, also known as ploussard and peloussard, that makes very delicate, pale, floral reds) from the Jura and honey-lavender ice cream. The first brother was a little guarded: 'Honestly, I'm not disappointed by that'; his brother more enthusiastic, 'I think it goes so well together, you have the floral herbaceousness [of the lavender] and the poulsard is very light.' The trend for pairing different ice creams and wine started in Paris, with the 'Vins et Glaces' bar, Folderol, which opened in the hip 11 th arrondissement in early 2021. Folderol was an instant hit, becoming so popular it had to ban TikTokers and hire a bouncer to control the crowds who rolled up, desperate to try its unusual flavours, which stretch from nectarine hibiscus to fig shortcake, and to wash them down with a glass of perfectly paired wine. At the end of last year, north London got its own artisanal ice cream parlour and wine bar, The Dreamery, a cool space with mirrored walls and a statement ceiling – and imaginatively decadent ice cream flavours, which got TikTok revved up all over again. As a result, it seems, ice cream sales are soaring: Waitrose says sales of its No 1 Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream are up 104 per cent compared to this time last year while sales of its No 1 Santo Domingo Chocolate Ice Cream are up 89 per cent (if you rate Haagen-Dazs chocolate, I recommend trying this). Will Torrent, Senior Innovation Chef at Waitrose says he is also on board with the ice cream and wine trend. 'This year we have been seeing a lot of restaurants starting to pair ice creams with wines and it is now one of my favourite combinations.' There's plenty of precedent for serving a refreshing sorbet with wine (and other drinks). For instance, sgroppino is an Italian drink made with prosecco, lemon sorbet and vodka – a bit like a lemony, boozy slushy. Mr McCoy's Island Ices, a gelateria and natural wine bar in Soller, Mallorca, has created a convoy of tantalising combinations such as Tequila Float with Tahitian and Kaffir Lime Sorbet; Negroni Float with orange juice sorbet; and Shandy Float made with lemon sorbet. But mixing dairy and wine is a different matter. It can work, when the wine is sweet. At Penfold's winery in Australia I once ate homemade vanilla ice-cream threaded with praline and raisins, served with a glass of Penfold's Grandfather Tawny, an Antipodean take on tawny port that tastes of caramel, roasted nuts and molten raisins: an ultra-gourmet take on rum and raisin ice cream. But dry wine with cream? I was sceptical. Still, it's always worth giving things a go. The Waitrose team has come up with some more outlandish – more folderol, perhaps I should say – combinations, however. Unsurprisingly, I liked their suggestion of pairing their tiramisu ice cream with No 1 Reserve Tawny Port. Another pairing, Millionaire's Dairy Ice Cream with Blueprint Fairtrade Pinotage, a big South African red that has juicy bright berry notes overlaid with a smoky spicy flavour, didn't work for me. However, while I don't usually enjoy the combination of dry wines with sweet food of any sort I was surprised to find I could see the point of another of Waitrose's dry red wine matches (see below). What I am not going to do, ever again, is emulate the global TikTok trend for putting scoops of vanilla ice cream into a glass of red wine and loading the whole lot up with canned fruit. 'It's like a creamy sangria,' trilled one Australian who tried the trending dessert for TikTok. Creamy sangria? That should tell you enough. Five wine and ice cream pairings that actually work The classic: PX sherry with vanilla PX sherry is reminiscent of molasses: dark, viscous and very sweet. It's classically served affogato-style (with the PX replacing the coffee). Surprise red wine pairing: Pinot noir with chocolate and cherry It was Waitrose that put me on to this with its suggestion that the No 1 Belgian Dairy Chocolate & Sour Cherry ice cream might pair well with the Waitrose Blueprint Romanian Pinot Noir. If you are going to put dry red with ice cream then this is the one to try. Chill the wine right down and enjoy the way the succulent cherry flavours in the wine meet the juicy cherries in the ice cream, while the gentle tannins of the wine meld with the cocoa of the chocolate. Clearly not one to try with your finest Vosne-Romanée but good with a cheaper pinot. Fruity sweet wine with fruit: Spätlese riesling with peach melba Sweeter wines are a more comfortable match with sugary food and spätlese riesling is just sweet enough to work. It has notes of nectarines and sweet apple which meld with the peach melba. Also lovely with apple ice cream or sorbet. Dairy and tawny: Tawny port with millionaire's ice cream The roasted nut and caramel flavours in the wine are a joyful match with the creamy, caramelly, chocolatey ice cream. French twist: Sauternes with coconut ice cream This star match was given to me by a wine colleague who had made the ice cream himself and it's an incredible combination: sauternes has some quite tropical fruit flavours – hints of pineapple with crystallised fruit and saffron – and it works brilliantly with coconut ice cream.
