Wine with Leslie: A top beer to enjoy with curry chips or a spice burger

— and some excellent wine and sherry recommendations if you want to drink less but drink better

Try Leslie's recommended beer below with a comfort-food spice burger or maybe a curry chips.

Well 2020 is finally over, 2021 can only be better. I have a few New Year’s Resolutions for you to consider this week and my suggestions round up some Christmas offers that should still be on the shelves.

The first resolution has to be dry sherry — still the best value wine to be found in your local wine shop. Over many years of teaching I have to accept that yeasty bone-dry Fino and Manzanilla is not for everyone. To some it smells of turpentine, but to me it smells of salty sea air mixed with herbs and lemon groves with baking bread aromas from the local bakery. I still haven’t made it to the seaside village of Sanlucar de Barrameda but I’m told all these scents are in the air most mornings as well as in the glass of Manzanilla you can sip on the beach.