A few times a year and certainly before the weather gets too hot to crank up the oven, I go to Trader Joe's for my pizza ingredients: pizza dough, lemon artichoke pesto, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, and shiitake mushrooms. All the ingredients go right onto the pizza crust (which needs a bit of a pre-bake to get the crispness right) in that order except for the mushrooms which first get sauteed in olive oil, garlic, butter and a light curry.
Curry is a generic term and there are many roads to curry, but a basic curry powder is one part cumin, one part coriander, one part turmeric and half a part dried red pepper. Also it's the orange stuff in that neglected small jar in the back of your spice cabinet. Go easy on the curry though, you don't want to kill all that delicate pesto/cheese action, you just want to fold into it another dimension.
Though not by nature a white wino, the prevailing opinion on what might go best with this pizza is a Sauvignon Blanc. This person offers an explanation I appreciate.
Since you're already at Trader Joe's, they offer a few Sauvignon Blancs of New Zealand fame and otherwise, these amongst them:
