![]() Grease a 22cm round, loose-bottom fluted tart tin with 25g of the butter and sprinkle with demerara sugar to coat. Increase heat to high and boil syrup for 8 minutes or until syrupy. Remove pear from syrup using a slotted spoon. Add pear, reduce heat to medium-low and cook for 5 minutes or until pear is just tender. Put wine, caster sugar and lemon juice in a medium saucepan over a medium heat and cook, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to a simmer. The Mosby Dolcetto brought out the deeper fruit and spice notes of the pears and magically made the tart disappear from our plates! It was such a treat that we look forward to making this red wine poached pear tart again very soon.Preheat oven to 180☌. Italy can be felt on the wine bottles as well with labels that are little works of art from an Italian artist. Mosby Winey is known for Italian varietals and owner and winemaker Bill Mosby was inspired by a trip to Italy to plant varietals such as Dolcetto and Sangiovese. These poppies are the official state flower since 1903 and a symbol of the Golden State since early Spanish settlers called them “copa de oro”, which means cup of gold. In the spring bright bursts of orange flowers, that are known as the California Poppy, cluster about the tasting room. Whenever we go for a visit to Mosby, we find the views from the vineyards equally captivating, with gentle hills framing the vineyards and fluffy clouds dotting the sky like little meringues that you just want to reach out and take a bite of one. This particular wine comes from the Mosby Winery & Vineyard located in the Santa Barbara County just south of Buellton and the tasting room is a rustic red barn nestled among beautiful vineyards. To pair with this tasty red wine poached pear meringue tart we had a lovely bottle of Mosby Dolcetto with dark red fruit, rosemary, and wood notes that remind you an afternoon stroll in a forest after the rain. The meringue gives a little sweetness to the pears and dresses it in pure elegance like a ballerinas frothy lace tutu. Whenever we would visit her there was always dessert waiting and a hearty meal in the making. Judit’s mom (Corina’s grandmother) was the inspiration for the meringue since she would often make little meringue cookies for a simple dessert in the past and we had been missing her desserts. As soon as the tart shell was baked and cooled we were more than ready to add the wine poached pears and the fluffy gorgeous meringue. With the pears happily sitting in their wine bath we roasted the hazelnuts and assembled the dough for the tart so that it could rest for at least an hour in the fridge before baking. ![]() It gives a deeper flavor to the fruit without cooking it too long. A wine country chef once taught us that it is better to reduce the wine a little before submerging the fruit. With the pears set out on the table in front of Corina’s painting of a pear, we first opened a bottle of leftover Syrah and as the fruity wine notes whiffed to our nose we quickly poured the wine into a large pot and started cooking it over medium-high heat. We had made poached pears the day before, but had gluttonously eaten them so we had to make more for the tart. They have longer necks and a more solid consistency than other pears. Bosc pears are also know as Beurré Bosc and are a European type of pear that is grown in Europe, Australia, parts of Canada, and in the north west of the U.S., even in California. This storm gave us the perfect occasion for this and we added a little more delight with meringue to make it a red Wine Poached Pear Meringue Tart.Īs the rain and wind played outside we turned on music (the Girls Aloud “Can’t Speak French”) and started to peel the few remanding juicy Bosc pears. ![]() Ever since we baked our first poached pear tart from a recipe found in our old Hungarian cookbook we have been yearning to make a tart with fragrant wine and fruit again. What do we do when there is cold stormy weather in paradise? We fill the house with the intoxicating aromas of spicy warm wine. The last weekend as the storm unleashed its fury for several days with torrential rain and high winds which ripped out several trees in our neighborhood and took the garden furniture for a spin so we decided to make something decadent like a cake or tart. ![]()
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