Wine with Leslie: Red wine you can drink cool — and Spanish Food and Wine Week is coming back
Red wine: the focus of this week's Wine with Leslie
Get your diary out as Spanish Food and Wine Week is back this Autumn from October 4-10. Covid-permitting I plan to host a series of wine dinners and lunches in some of my favourite places including Solas in Dingle, the Mustard Seed in Ballingarry and the Burren Storehouse in Lisdoonvarna. There will be tastings and events nationwide, all focused around the joys of wines from Spain which represents around 15% of Irish wine sales — only Chile sells more wine here than Spain.
My selections this week are all from Spain with a new soft juicy zero-sulphur red bargain in O’Briens and two of Spain’s best white grape varieties: Verdejo and Xarel-lo.
