wine for curry

Although JC is the wine guy in our household, it's my job to choose a bottle of wine for dinner (only because I use the wine for JC's blind tasting practice).
This day's task was to choose a wine for Coconut Curry with Shrimp.

Riesling is usually a good choice for curry. The sweetness of coconut milk may conflict with bone-dry wine, so I chose German Riesling.
I like to throw an adventure, so chose a rival wine: 2013 Savennieres, experiment to see how the high acid of Chenin Blanc would work with the spiciness of curry.

JC did good with the blind tasting.
He nailed 2013 Savennieres, and he missed the vintage and sweetness, but got Mosel Riesling right.

As for the pairing...Riesling was the winner.
Savennieres and curry pairing was hopelessly bad. JC thought that just like tannin wouldn't work with spiciness, the phenolic bitterness collided with spice.

Next day we had Savennieres with Cream Tomato Pasta.
The wine revived.