WINE COMBINATION

[vikas]

which wines go well with indian foods?

[Innkeeper]

Hi Vikas, and welcome to the Wine Board. If someone from another country lumped all Indian Food into one category, you would probably be rightly offended. Will try to give some very general guidlines. Most Indian Food can be broadly described as "spicy." For lighter dishes try riesling and gewurztraminer. Harder to find whites are gurner veltliner from Austria, and albarino from Spain. Cotes Du Rhone Blanc and Rouge give us the transition into reds.

Other Rhone wines such as Crozes Hermitage work very well as long as they are syrah based. Grenache based wines don't do quite as well. The Australian versions of these wines, shiraz, work very well with spicy foods. American reds include zinfandel, petite sirah, syrah/shiraz, and blends of these. Argentine Malbec also works well.

[Botafogo]

IK, our standard response to someone claiming to not like Italian wines is "that is like saying you don't like Indian food or African music: there is too much diversity for that to be a useful statement"!!!

We find that the full, rich, almost sweet wines made from air-dried RED grapes work fabulously with tandoori while we default to Belgian Whit Bier (beer fermented from wheat and flavored with coriander and dried orange peel instead of hops) for most other Indian fare.

R.I.P Alan Lomax....we will miss you but treasure your work forever

Roberto

[Botafogo]

IK, does "gurner" veltliner make you make a face like in the Scottish gurning competitions?

Not to bust on your typos but it will be easier to find Grüner Veltliner in the stores....

Roberto

[Innkeeper]

Roberto, I seriously considered wadding into Italian options, but thought you would take up the slack. Vikas, sorry about the gruner typo.

[winoweenie]

Lay into ole' "fat-fingers" there Boto-baby. He never lets one teensey slip of mine go unpunished. WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]