Wine with Leslie: Beaujolais, the perfect summer red — great for the grill
Conjure idealised thoughts of summer and wine and most people will imagine bottles of pale Rosé poking out of ice buckets covered in condensation, glasses of Champagne with strawberries floating in them, or maybe chilled glasses of Chablis beside a tray of oysters sitting on crushed ice.
It’s true that we drink less red in the summer but we absolutely do not have to. Red wine can be served cool, even chilled in some cases, and no rosé or white wine will match those grilled Merguez sausages or BBQ pork chops as well as a cool Austrian Zweigelt, Pays d’Oc Pinot Noir or a full-on Argentinian Malbec.
