Wine with Chinese Food

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Bill Spohn) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m28.aol.com:

Gewurtztraminer was made for spivy food. Hint, Gewurtz means Spice in German. Pintoage is a red that can often stand up to spice too, but for my money it Gewurtztraminer every time.

Actually, it wasn't You don't find too much spicy food in Alsace. ;-)

The words 'stand up to' are the give-away. Indeed there are some wines that can weather the assault of spice better than others, but none that I have found can remain untouched and unchanged under that sort of attack.

I wouldn't subject the more expensive Gewurz (ZH, Weinbach) that I drink to that sort of insult, and I'd probably prefer not to do so with more modestGewurz as well, as my first consideration is normally enjoyment of the wine.

most food-friendly of wines, especially those of Champagne.

Yup - and ironically, most champers gets drunk on its own as a celebratory drink rather than with food.

Or barbarically sprayed over the crowd by Neanderthal 'sports stars' who probably wouldn't know a bottle of decent wine if you jammed it up their ....noses.

Tonight I had Chave St. Joseph Offerus 2000 with Chinese style marinated pork strips from the local butcher. While the sweetness of the marinade really dulled any fruit in the wine, it brought forth an onslaught of black pepper and spice. An hour and a half later, I'm having trouble finding the pepper but the wine is still really tasty. Thanks to whoever reccommended this wine to me a month ago.