13-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com

Fortified wines to pair with the Easter treats

A glass of Port, Madeira or Marsala is just the thing to elevate chocolate and Simnel cakeVinte Vinte Chocolate and Port Tasting Box, Douro, Portugal NV (from £22, amazon.co.uk; virginwines.co.uk; tanners-wines.co.uk) For those of us who treat Easter as a kind of secular spring-Christmas, featuring similarly liberal doses of chocolate and booze, recent movements in the trades have conspired to make next weekend more expensive than ever. Thanks to a run of poor harvests in west Africa, coco
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