A recipe for your next very, very special occasion: an olive oil cake infused with rich, lush Sauternes
Sauternes is a wine made for special occasions. Baked into a cake it’s doubly extravagant, and the recipe is otherwise surprisingly simpleI KNOW THE HOLIDAYS are over. But occasions to celebrate arise in every month of the year. When they do, I recommend adopting this French festive custom: Serve a cake infused with sweet, rich Sauternes, a wine that reliably telegraphs opulence and indulgence.
Wines labeled Sauternes are made in the Bordeaux appellation of the same name, from Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and/or Muscadelle grapes affected by noble rot—aka Botrytis cinerea—an affliction that gives vintners their own cause for celebration, as it concentrates the...
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