On the lookout for some inspiration of what wine to serve subsequent time you are cooking a lamb Sunday roast? We have picked 4 completely different kinds of lamb dishes – from fruity lamb tagine to smoky lamb koftas – to information you to the proper wine pairing with this complicated meat. Lamb historically loves pink wine, and we’ve received the basic roast lamb and rioja mixture in right here, however we’re additionally being a bit experimental. Learn on to find the qualities to search for to create the proper wine match, together with some particular prime bottle suggestions to make sure you’ll severely impress together with your wine expertise and information at your subsequent feast.
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Wine pairing at a look:
- Rioja pairing: slow-cooked lamb
- Côtes du Rhône pairing: lamb tagine
- South African white mix pairing: lamb koftas
- Xinomavro pairing: roast lamb
Greatest wine to serve with slow-cooked lamb: rioja
Properly we needed to put a rioja in, didn’t we? Our alternative, a bottle of Baron de Barbon is a very full instance with greater than sufficient fruit to deal with this unctuous melt-in-the-mouth tackle roast lamb. Really a match made in heaven.
We advocate serving our slow-cooked leg of lamb with a bottle comparable to:
Baron de Barbon, £11.99, Laithwaite’s.
Greatest wine to serve with lamb tagine: côtes du Rhône
Wealthy spicy southern French wine goes brilliantly with North African meals. The dish on this case is a wealthy lamb tagine sweetened with carrots and apricots, and the suitably sturdy accompaniment is that this ripe grenache-based mix from the Rhône valley. This easy, medium-bodied wine has notes of plum and cherry fruits to pair nicely with the fruity parts of the tagine, plus virtually natural complexity to steadiness with the nice and cozy spices.
We advocate serving our fruity lamb tagine with a bottle comparable to:
Cuvee du Vatican CDR, £13.99, Laithwaite’s.
Greatest wine to serve with lamb koftas: South African white mix
Lamb koftas have so much occurring: fatty meat, smoky char from the griddle and a success of spices and garlic. Now, you possibly can serve a spicy pink right here comparable to a rioja or an Australian shiraz, however we’ve gone a bit off piste with this South African white wine. It’s received the freshness to deal with fatty meat and the physique to face as much as fairly heavy spicing. Unorthodox maybe, however very scrumptious – an excellent instance to point out that it does not at all times need to be pink wine with lamb.
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We advocate serving our lamb koftas with a bottle comparable to:
The Forager, £12.99, Laithwaite’s.
Greatest wine to serve with roast lamb: xinomavro
As you would possibly anticipate, Greek-style lamb goes brilliantly with a Greek pink wine. Xinomavro is a grape that makes aromatic, fruity wine with a recent acidity and fairly agency tannins, making it the proper match with roast lamb served somewhat pink. Throw in some olives and oregano, and you possibly can be in Peloponnese.
We advocate serving our Greek roast lamb with a bottle comparable to:
Invicta Xinomavro, £14.99, Laithwaite’s.
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