Matching Food and Wine: Lamb!

Wine Blast with Susie and Peter

So: what wine to pair with your roast lamb?
Our answers might surprise you.
Lamb is a classic in the wine matching pantheon. But it's not as easy as it may first seem. In fact, we'd argue a lot of supposed matches are way off the mark.
Lamb is a very delicate red meat so needs a specific kind of wine to get the best out of the combination. Sometimes (in fact, really quite often) the best style of wine to pair with lamb is.....white.
Failing that, an elegant red - but beware even the so-called classic pairings, because they don't all work, as we explain.
This episode is part of our food-and-wine matching mini-series brought to you in association with Wine Club by Majestic. The wines featured are all available in Majestic:

• Domaine Maire Heritage Chardonnay 2018, Côtes du Jura, France (from £12.99)
• Borsao Tocado Garnacha 2020, Campo de Borja, Spain (from £7.99 or £99 as part of the 12-bottle Discovery case from Wine Club by Majestic)
• Marqués de Riscal Rioja Reserva 2018, Spain (from £13.99)

This short-form Live episode is also available in video format so if you'd like to see us in action, check out our YouTube channel: Susie & Peter On Wine.
The recipe for our 'roast lamb with a twist' is available, together with all links, photos, wines and more details from the show, on our website: Show notes for Wine Blast S3 E27 - Matching Food and Wine: Lamb!
Do send us in your thoughts, we'd love to hear from you! What do you think of our choices? What are YOUR favourite matches with roast lamb?
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Chapters

1. Choosing the right wine for your lamb...isn't as easy as you might think (00:00:10)

2. This is the second installment in our food-and-wine mini series with Wine Club by Majestic (00:00:24)

3. Last time we matched wines to curry... (00:01:00)

4. Listener Paul suggested Vin Santo as a leftfield match for curry! (00:01:24)

5. Our lamb dish is a bit of a twist on the classic (00:02:53)

6. Butterflied leg of lamb with salsa verde (00:03:26)

7. Why lamb is difficult to pair with wine (00:04:36)

8. Marques de Riscal Rioja Reserva 2018 (00:05:10)

9. And what about a cheeky Spanish Garnacha? (00:06:32)

10. Our final option...drumroll...is a WHITE wine (00:08:01)

11. Domaine Maire Cotes du Jura Chardonnay 2018 (00:09:20)

12. Summing up - get in touch, and bon appetit... (00:10:23)