I can't sit in the kitchen and cook without opening up a bottle of wine. I reached for the 2010 Cline Syrah.
A few notes about these cookies. The peanut butter inside needs to freeze so it's easy to wrap the dough around it, so I made them the weekend before. When I went for the peanut butter balls, my husband begins to tell me how good they are. At this point I flip cause I had just enough for 7 dozen cookies with three to spare. Well...at the end I was one short. I didn't think I needed to put a note on the bag that said "HANDS OFF." I guess I do for next time.
When I bake I try not to eat the dough. Well this time, I found that the chocolate peanut butter dough went great with the Cline Syrah. So much that a sip of wine required a pinch of dough. I was short a few peanut butter balls, so what the heck. In the long run, I had enough dough, the cookies came out great and I enjoyed a bottle of wine while baking.
The 2010 Cline Syrah comes mostly from their Sonoma Coast vineyards with 8% coming from their Contra Costa County vineyard. The wine is aged for 14 months in oak of which 35% is new dark toasted French Oak. The brix at harvest were 22.7 and the alcohol clocked in at 13%.
