Truth is, the liquid in your wine glass is nothing but fermented grape juice. Sometimes, if it's good, il can taste like anything but fermented grapes.

Take gewurztraminer - or traminer for short. Very often you take a sniff of a good traminer and your nostrils fill with exotic, heady, spicy perfume. Because the traminer grape has such sweet-smelling aromas, many winemakers have turned it into quite a sweet wine. Think of the popularity of traminer riesling with its fruity softness. Many winemakers also make a drier while from this grape, where most or all of the sugar
is fermented out. And it's this dry style of traminer that goes so well with food.

A lot of people think traminer is best for Thai and other South-East Asian food. Indeed, traminer 'n' Thai has become a bit of a cliche, and with good reason: the cooking in this part of the world is about balancing sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavours. Think of the intense tastes of palm sugar, lime juice, fish sauce and chilli. There's also emphasis on fragrance - think lemon grass, ginger and basil. All of which could be a perfect description of gewiirztraminer: perfumed, fruity, crisp, spicy and ... yum.

Traminer can also smell like Turkish delight 01 lychees steeped in coseivsrer

Source:Better Homes and Gardens