WINE COMBINATION

[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.