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wine to go with spicy cajun-style shrimp
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hi. i'm fairly new to the wine scene and this is my first post. we're serving a dinner for friends this weekend and the entree is called "barbecue shrimp." it is not really barbecued per se, but actually an old family recipe from new orleans. is it a spicy dish, as the sauce for the shrimp includes lots of seasoning, including cayenne pepper.

the wine spectator website's food-matching tool says that with cajun-style shrimp, the most appropriate wines are (in increasing order of weight) are: Albarino, Gavi, Sancerre or Pouilly-Fume, Chablis
Alsace (except Pinot Blanc).

"cajun-style" seems to be good heading for our shrimp dish, but i'm wondering if this entree is actually much more spicy that they would expect. in other words, will these fairly light wines stand up to this dish? is it the sweetness of these wines that will compensate for the spiciness of the food?

can anyone suggest which of these wine types would be most appropriate, or should i serve something totally different?

thanks for your help!!!
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