Review: Muzeo Treats Poeme Pates de Fruit
Normally we don’t cover confectionery here, but if there’s anything I enjoy alongside a glass of dessert wine (especially Sauternes) it’s pates de fruit — better known perhaps as fruit jellies. This box of jellies from Laguna Beach-based Poeme includes three slabs of fruits, 15 pieces each, each in a different flavor: Morello cherry, Williams pear, and Corsican lemon.
These are fruit first, jellies second, each with more than 60% fruit in the mix. You can readily taste it across the lineup, with visible pieces (however small) of fresh fruit and, especially, candied peels embedded in the pectin.
Of the three flavors, I was surprised to find the pear expression to be my favorite. Pear isn’t my normal go-to flavor for much of anything, but here it tastes so fresh and authentic and rich that it’s hard not to really love — like biting into a fresh pear tart. It’s also particularly great with sparkling wine. Morello cherry is close behind — I can see spearing one of these onto a pick to make for the most decadent old fashioned garnish you’ve ever had. I wasn’t however completely in love with the lemon expression; there’s too much peel in the finished product, making it come across as a bit gritty.
The full box weighs just shy of a pound at 15 oz, and while $60 is pricy — that’s $1.33 per piece — this is definitely a special occasion box (or a really nice gift), and not something to casually munch on while watching Love Is Blind. I’m a fan.
A- / $60 (15 oz.)
Muzeo Treats Poeme Pates de Fruit
USD60
