Wine & Ice-Cream Pairings for Your Next Netflix Night

Coffee ice cream is a fantastic mix of sweet, creamy, and bitter. That roasted, toasty flavor is the star of the show.

You can go two ways here. You can match the roasted notes, or you can find something that acts like cream and sugar in your coffee.

Your Perfect Pairings:

• Cream Sherry: Don’t let the word “sherry” scare you. This isn’t your grandma’s dusty bottle. A good Cream Sherry is sweet, nutty, and complex. It has flavors of walnuts, caramel, and dried figs. It’s like adding a delicious hazelnut creamer to your coffee ice cream.
• Tawny Port: While Ruby Port is all about fruit, Tawny Port is aged longer in barrels, giving it nutty, caramel flavors. It tastes like toffee, almonds, and cinnamon. It’s a beautiful “friend” pairing for the roasted notes in the coffee.

Netflix Genre: A historical drama or an epic fantasy. This pairing is sophisticated, complex, and has layers of flavor to discover.

If you love… Salted Caramel

This is where things get really interesting. Salted caramel is the king of contrast. It’s sweet, salty, and buttery all at once.

You need a wine that can handle all that complexity. You need a wine with high sweetness and acidity to cut through the richness.

Your Perfect Pairings:

• Sauternes: This is a famous sweet wine from Bordeaux, France. It’s made from grapes that have been affected by something called “noble rot,” which sounds gross but creates an amazing, concentrated sweetness. It has flavors of apricot, honey, and nuts, with a zippy acidity that balances the sweetness. The wine’s honeyed notes will love the caramel, and its acidity will cut through the fat, making each bite and sip feel fresh.
• Vin Santo: An Italian "holy wine" that is lusciously sweet with notes of hazelnut, caramel, and dried apricot. It’s a perfect flavor echo for the salted caramel, creating a truly decadent experience.

Netflix Genre: A mind-bending sci-fi movie. This pairing is unexpected, complex, and will make you think.

What If My Ice Cream Has… Chunks?

Ah, the Ben & Jerry’s dilemma. What do you do when your ice cream is a wild mix of flavors, chunks, and swirls?

The rule here is to pair to the strongest flavor.

• Cookie Dough? Your ice cream has a vanilla or sweet cream base, but the star is the brown sugar and chocolate chip flavor of the cookie dough. Try a Tawny Port. Its caramel and nutty notes will be amazing with the brown sugar.
• Mint Chocolate Chip? This is a tricky one! The strong mint can clash with many wines. But, there is a secret weapon: A sweet sparkling red like Brachetto d'Acqui can work. The berry flavor is surprisingly good with mint, and the bubbles help cleanse the palate. Another option is to lean into the chocolate. A Ruby Port can be a great partner for the chocolate chips.
• Peanut Butter Cup? You have chocolate and you have salty, nutty peanut butter. This is a job for a Ruby Port. The jammy fruit flavor of the port is like the peanut butter and jelly sandwich you loved as a kid, but all grown up.

Feeling Overwhelmed? Let Soma Be Your Guide

Okay, that’s a lot of information. It’s exciting, but it can also be a little daunting. You might be standing in the wine aisle, staring at a wall of bottles, and completely forgetting everything you just read.

That’s perfectly normal. Learning about wine is a journey, and you don’t have to do it alone.

This is exactly why we created the Vinoh app. Vinoh is your personal wine journal. You can scan bottles, log your tasting notes, and learn about every wine you try. But the best part is our AI assistant, Soma.

Think of Soma as your personal sommelier (that’s a fancy word for wine expert) who lives in your pocket.

Let’s say you’re at the store and you just picked up a pint of salted caramel ice cream. You can open the Vinoh app and ask Soma:

“Hey Soma, what wine should I pair with salted caramel ice cream?”

Soma, who learns your personal palate over time, won’t just give you a generic answer. It will give you specific recommendations you can actually find in the store. It can even help you find the best food pairings for any wine you log, tell you the story behind the winery, and compare your tasting notes with expert reviews.

It takes the guesswork out of wine. It makes discovering new pairings fun, not stressful. With Vinoh, every bottle becomes an adventure. You can download it from the App Store here.

Your Next Netflix Night Adventure

The next time you’re settling in for a movie night, I challenge you to skip the usual snacks.

Walk past the chip aisle. Be brave.

Grab a pint of your favorite ice cream and use this guide (or your new AI assistant, Soma) to find its perfect wine partner.

You might discover your new favorite combination. You might find a wine you never would have tried otherwise. At the very least, you’ll have a fun story to tell.

You’re not just having wine and ice cream. You’re creating an experience. You’re turning a regular Tuesday night into a mini-celebration. And you deserve that.

So go ahead, get scooping and sipping. Your upgraded Netflix night awaits.