Spicy Food Meet Spicy Wine

Well if you can’t tell my by total disappearance from the blog world, my job has been keeping me insanely busy. If work didn’t have me hopping, my seemingly endless social engagements have. So last Friday when my wife was excited to make a delicious dinner and relax at home, well I couldn’t believe my life was accommodating. Arriving home, I got a text. “You should put a white in the fridge.” Looking forward to a good local wine, it was my surprise when a NY wine flew off the shelf and into the freezer right before I went to fight insane rush hour traffic to pick up my wife at the metro. A “QUICK” trip to whole foods, and we were ready to tear into our wine selection while preparing dinner.

On the dinner menu, Pumpkin Curry with shrimp over roasted spaghetti squash.











On the wine list, Goose Watch 2009 Traminette.

















Goose Watch is a small winery on the North West shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lake region of New York. For those not totally familiar with Traminette, it is a Gewurztaminer hybrid developed at Cornell University. With the spicy qualities of the Gewurztaminer, this wine promised to meld beautifully with the spicy curry my wife was making.


With curry just about finished, it was time to open the wine and see what we had in store. The nose contained lush tropical fruits of melon with hints of orange peel. The taste greeted you with more bright citrus fruit. A mild acidic to round out the mouth, and once it warmed a little, a spicy little finish.


The pumpkin curry paired as advertised with this wine. It gracefully balanced the acidic fruit of the wine with spicy sauce of the curry, leaving a rich full mouth spicy clean feel. I’d recommend this wine with almost any spicy selection.