Why wine tastes more bitter as meal progresses

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The bitterness has everything to do with the food and wine pairing. If you like spicy Indian vegetarian food (as I do), you should have asked what the Indians have with such meals. No surprise, it's not wine. Indians, including my fanatical wine loving friend Dileep, most generally will have something that ameliorates the heat and spiceness, and makes an attempt to match. They will usually have some type of yogurt based drink or condiment (like raita) that tempers the heat. If you must have a wine, we've found that a sparkling wine (surprisingly enough) goes best of all the wines we've tried with spicy Indian dishes. Anything else and you're on your own.