ENCORE Presentation: Ep 396 - A Tasting of Halloween Candy Pairings (and why candy and wine don't mix)

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

From the archives, I am relaunching the funniest show I've ever done: Ep 396 -Halloween Candy Pairings with Patrons Kelsey and Colby Eliades.

We scoured the internet to find commonly recommended pairings, so we could actually try them and tell you if any of these things actually work. The news isn’t great (candy and wine are HORRIBLE together), but we did find a few diamonds in the rough, including an extremely surprising combo that I thought could be lethal!

Here are the combos we tested…

Pop rocks with Prosecco
Candy corn with Prosecco and Moscato d’Asti
Gummy worms with Rosé
Sour Patch Kids with off-dry Riesling
Starburst and Moscato d’Asti
Twizzlers, and Swedish Fish with Beaujolais
Kit Kat with Pinot Noir
Peppermint Patties with Syrah
Reese’s Peanut Butter cups and Reese’s Pieces with Lambrusco
Hershey's bars and Whoppers with Zinfandel
Port-style Zinfandel with M&Ms, Snickers, Twix, Heath bar

And, so concludes my attempt at pairing wine with Halloween candy. We did the encore, I am so thankful for Kelsey and Colby for participating, and now I'm never doing this again 😂😂😂!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the Podcasts for People who like Wine for Normal People,
0:09.8	the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:13.2	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider author of the Wine for Normal People Book and
0:19.2	certified wine dork. This show is sponsored by Wine Access go to Wine Access. Wine include shipping and you get 10% off every purchase that you make as a
0:34.9	wine club member. Even better the holidays are coming up why not gift someone a
0:39.4	wine club membership go to wine access.com normal. Check out your options today and think about the wine lover in your life
0:46.0	as the holidays are coming up. Wine Access.com
0:48.0	slash normal listen in the middle of the show for more details.
0:51.0	Halloween is my favorite holiday.
0:55.0	I think many of you who have been following the show for a long time know that.
0:58.0	My least favorite thing about Halloween is all of the articles that come out and talk about pairing Halloween
1:04.8	candy with wine. Two times in the history of this show I have tried to do wine and
1:11.8	Halloween candy pairings and two times it has been a stunning failure.
1:18.0	But nothing is funnier than the show that we did with patrons Colby and Kelsey. This show was done as we were tasting
1:27.4	the candy and wine pairings. It is hilarious and it is full of hot takes and lots of really great descriptions.
1:36.8	If you really want to know what it's like to taste Halloween candy and wine,
1:41.4	we have done the work. Unlike all of the journalists who
1:44.6	get paid to write these articles, we actually did what they suggested and let me
1:49.5	tell you the results are God awful. You are going to have so much fun listening to this or
1:54.8	relistening to this. I am so happy to release this the week of Halloween. Have some fun.
2:01.4	Sit back. Do not have Halloween candy with your wine, but enjoy this
2:05.8	rebroadcast of the spectacular show and thanks again to patrons Colby and Kelsey
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