Calling all foodies: Which wine with Thai food?

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<p>I’m not much into wine, but our guests who are coming to visit tomorrow night enjoy it. I’m picking up dinner from our favorite Thai restaurant, making dessert, and would also like to pick up a bottle of suitable wine. What do you suggest?</p>

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<p>We always bring Singha (Thai beer). The wine drinkers (winers or winos?) usually bring whatever they like.</p>

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<p>Beer. :slight_smile: But if you really want wine, probably a Riesling, or something like it that’s on the sweet side, to balance the spiciness of the food.</p>

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<p>Another vote for Beer. You can do rice wine (but in small quantities!)</p>

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<p>another vote for Singha, I only drink it- occasionally and then only when I am having Thai, but it works well with those flavors</p>

<p>wine just doesn’t work-IMO anyway- besides if they are really into wine- they might have very particular tastes
thai iced tea with or without a little kick also might be an alternative</p>

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<p>Beer beer beer</p>

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<p>I like beer best. But Gewurztraminer is really good too. It’s a bit like Riesling, but spicier and flowery-er. Or you could just get something bland like a Pinot Grigio - which I think goes with pretty much anything.</p>

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<p>Never thought of anything but Beer with Thai.</p>

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<p>Viognier - just like you do if you eat Chinese and really prefer wine to beer. I am in this situation often, and my boss is both Chinese-American and a wine collector…</p>

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<p>How about Cheers Beer (from Thailand)? My kids love the commercials!</p>

<p>See attached link:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0fy-9NWFg[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0fy-9NWFg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Enjoy!</p>

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<p>Singha. It’s what they recommended at the Thai restaurant tonight.</p>

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<p>I don’t like beer, so I would prefer a nice cold white wine, something with some body and depth</p>

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<p>Something a bit sweet like a Riesling as mentioned or a sweeter chardonnay like Kendall Jackson. No red.</p>

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<p>mathmom nailed it. A good Gewurz is just perfect with Thai food.</p>

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<p>I lived in Thailand for a year and never saw a bottle of wine. If it wasn’t Singha (which is stronger in Thailand than you get here and came in quart-size bottles) it was Mekong, Thai whiskey that was never more than two weeks old when you got the bottle…with the date stamped on to prove it! (Seriously, cocktails are great with Thai food, can really stand up to it.)</p>

<p>This website
<a href=“http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2006/05/wine_and_thai_f.html[/url]”>http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2006/05/wine_and_thai_f.html&lt;/a&gt;
has some excellent suggestions on pairing wine with Thai. I wouldn’t have thought to suggest sparkling, but the website makes it sound like sense.</p>

<p>โชคดีค่ะ…good luck!</p>

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<p>A rather sweet wine that would be great with your Thai main course AND dessert is Messina Hof Angel (Late Harvest) Riesling. Fruit as a dessert is a great followup to Thai food and would be wonderful with the wine.</p>

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<p>Another vote for riesling, gewurtz, etc. But not the standard sweetness – a “half-dry” is the ticket. Ask the wineperson for advice. Or, go with whichever has more alcohol, so has used up more of the sugars in the grape juice. It will still be a lower alcohol wine than the regular whites – in the 10% range.</p>

<p>And Singha is good, too!</p>

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<p>Viognier is that kind of a little sweetish wine…again, only if you just don’t like beer.</p>

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<p>Whatever you do, don’t mix Guinness with thai food.</p>

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<p>Agree that you need a sweeter wine (gewurtz, reisling, chenin blanc/vouvray).
Another option would be a tawny port, which has that sort of caramel-ly quality. </p>

<p>Sauv blancs, chardonnays, etc would be too dry and their flavors would compete and possibly clash with thai food.</p>