Pistachio Ice Cream Sandwiches with Lemon Cookies & Muscat Dessert Wine

Difficulty:

1/5

This dish is from Episode 4 of This Food That Wine

Wine Suggestion: Muscat Dessert Wine

Dish

Store-bought ice cream sandwiches with lemon cookies and pistachio ice cream

Wine Pairing

Description: Muscat is a grape that is made into many styles of wine from very dry to rich, intensely sweet dessert wines like this one. It has sweet, floral aromas and flavours of citrus and marmalade. It is very sweet, but has a refreshing, crisp finish, which helps lighten up the intensity of the sweetness.

Pairing: Pairing wine with ice cream is tricky – it needs to be at least as sweet as the ice cream, but it also should be crisp enough to match the coolness of the dessert. The Muscat balances the sugars in the dessert, and it has a hint of citrus that complements the citrus in the lemon cookies.

Wine suggestion: Try a Black Muscat dessert wine from California, U.S.A. or Rutherglen, Australia