What wine pairs with vindaloo?

Here are 3 recommended wine pairings for vindaloo. Click the button below to explore all options on the Verso app.

Off-dry Riesling

white · Riesling · Mosel · Allemagne — 8–10°C

Off-dry Riesling, with high residual sugar and acidity, is the best ally against vindaloo's fire.

Gewurztraminer Vendanges Tardives

white · Gewurztraminer · Alsace · France — 10–12°C

Alsatian Gewurztraminer Vendanges Tardives (overripe grapes >257g/L sugar, late-harvested after first frosts on Grands Crus like Goldert) — candied lychee, rose, acacia honey and spices contrast magnificently with Goan vindaloo's extreme heat; 50-100g/L residual sugar is one of the only wines capable of quenching Bedgi chili capsaicin (8/10 Scoville).

Moscato

sparkling · Muscat · Piémont · Italie — 6–8°C

Moscato d'Asti (Muscat à Petits Grains from Piedmont, Asti method at 5.5° and 100g/L residual sugar) — peach, sweet orange, rose and light non-saturated bubbles offer sweet effervescent respite from blazing vindaloo; 5.5° alcohol not amplifying capsaicin (unlike strong wines), bubbles lightening and sweetness calming pork marinated 24h in vinegar-Bedgi-chili-cumin.

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