Wine and chocolates - two tasty favourites which can accompany each other well on special occasions.
Which got Clearview Estate's winemaker Tim Turvey thinking. He had the wine, and the winery's neighbour at Te Awanga, Anissa Talbi Dobson, had the chocolate.
So when she approached him about eight months ago and suggested a couple of Clearview's sweet wines and her hand-crafted chocolates might create a special viticultural confection, Turvey was intrigued.
"I've known Anissa for quite a while but wasn't really sure what she did. When she approached and suggested it I thought, 'yes, let's try it'."
He told her Clearview had the perfect candidates for the mission to create a unique blend of the grape and the cacao/cocoa seed - which he believes is the first of its kind in Hawke's Bay, and possibly the country.