TN: (cheap) wines with curry, (cheap) '98 Burg

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It's really not worth it to drink wine with strongly spiced Indian food, IMHO and experience, although mild things like birianis might work. Most wines that I can taste while eating a curry would ordinarily be dreimannerweine :-) I'd stick to beer, lassi or even ice-water. I have to admit that I recently had an enjoyable Thai meal where we had two bottles of Sancerre but I am not converted!

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James Silverton

I actually had Indian food 2 nights in a row- Sunday we went to a restaurant with friends, a place where owners are from Malabar coast. We had some Chera Rajya courses, as well as some "standard Indian" dishes. I went with water, as I didn't feel like beer. I hate lassi. I expected the dishes on Monday to be a little milder, so beer would have been a better choice. But the great thing about about a decent $8 bubbly is it won't clash horribly with spice, and it's cold. :) Dale

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Dale Williams

Dale, I am not in love with Indian food but when having Curry if I don't have beer a sparkling always worksa and I found some of the Gvertz's dry or not so dry work as well.

But being my mouth is usually on fire...I prefer tons of water.

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Richard Neidich

Note--- Thai Curry Red Yellow or green are my favortite foods of late.

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Richard Neidich

Salut/Hi Dale Williams,

le/on 24 Sep 2004 01:09:14 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Lucky devil! The only way I ever get to eat indian food two days in a row is when I make a batch of four or five dishes up, and we eat them until they're finished. We're suffering from a certain amount of withdrawal at the moment, as we can't serve Indian food to punters - err clients, and we've hardly had time or energy to do any proper cooking for ourselves since May.

Yet another thing we have in common.

with spice, and it's

Perfectly true, and $8 is not a lot to blow anyway. I would be with you and drink beer or water - even if I bought the table some fizz.

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Ian Hoare

Wines made from European grapes go best with European dishes. The dishes of other cultures in which wine-drinking was not traditional, are generally, though not always, unsuited for accompaniment with wines made from European grapes. Alcoholic beverages of other sorts are made to accompany them (beer, saki, or whatever).

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Uranium Committee

Why not? You could have served it to us.

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Ken Blake

huh? Indian food is like "made" for a nice Mosel riesling Qba, Kabinett or Spatlese... We had a Dr Wagner 2003 riesling Qba with a Tandoori mixed grill tonight, and it was wonderful...

JMHO

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Snoop

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