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Product Description:
These irresistible wine-infused cracker snacks are like savory shortbread. They’re crisp, flavorful and jazzed up with a trace of white wine, mellow shallot and a hint of cayenne-induced heat. Enjoy them solo, dipped, spread, topped or as a topper!
I received a small sample box of these cookie-ish crackers in my Goodies Box for November.
Tea Suggestion:
Since these are wine-infused crackers, I decided to grab a wine-inspired tea to enjoy along with them. It was a fantastic pairing! I went with this White Tea Riesling from Vintage Tea Works and I loved how well the fruity flavors of the tea played with the savory notes from these crispy, cookie-like crackers. It was a delicious snack!
What I Think:
These are some of the most unique crackers that I’ve ever tasted … they look more like a shortbread cookie than a cracker, and they do have a similar texture, but, they are not quite as buttery as a typical shortbread cookie. Nor are they sweet – these are savory!
The first flavor I notice when I bite into one of these crunchy snack crackers is the flavor of the shallot. It is a sharp onion flavor, a little spicy but also a little sweet. After eating about three of the crackers, the cayenne really caught up to me, and I could feel the peppery heat on the back of my throat, a heat that spread to the back of my tongue, and slowly crept up to the very tip of my tongue.
I didn’t taste a whole lot of wine flavor in these. Most of the time, it’s like, if it’s there, it’s really subtle. And then every once in a while I’ll taste a bite and I can really notice the wine.
My Final Thoughts:
I really liked these!
The back of the sample package of these crackers suggests a list of different foods to eat with these crackers, like cheese, dips, soup or salad … but I ate them on their own with my cup of tea, and found them to be marvelously flavorful just like that. If pairing these with a food, I would recommend choosing something that had a subtle flavor on its own because the flavor of these crackers/cookies gets intense, and it’s really enjoyable, I think that if I were to choose a strong cheese some of that flavor would be overwhelmed, and I wouldn’t want that!
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