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What food to pair with Vin Santo?

What food to pair with Vin Santo?

Posted on November 10 2009 at 07:54

No visit to Tuscany is complete without a glass of Vin Santo or ‘holy wine’, a (usually) sweet wine that is served at the end of the meal, almost always with hard little ‘cantucci’ biscuits.

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