Gewürztraminer

With creamy, gently spiced Indian curries Gewürztraminer smells of lychee and sweet rose before you have even taken a sip, and that perfume meets the warm spice of a curry house order head on instead of being flattened by it. It also tends to taste sweeter than it really is, which flatters a creamy chicken curry. Keep it for the gentler end of the menu: it is usually fairly high in alcohol, often 13.5% or more, and a fierce vindaloo turns that into a burn.