Wine with Leslie: Try these well-priced Spanish wines from lesser known regions

Simple, but clever — one of these wines has a label that develops a little blue boat when the wine is at the optimum temperature

Spanish Food and Wine Week finishes this weekend but many retailers will be continuing their offers on Spanish wines into next week. Among those retailers is a new outlet called The Allotment wine company — theallotment.ie — who have 15% reduction on all Spanish wines and delivery is free for orders of more than 12 bottles. Christopher Gifford of The Allotment was formerly the wine buyer in Donnybrook Fair and is a very safe pair of hands if you need advice. The Allotment has several wines that have appeared on this page from producers as diverse as Lyrarakis in Crete to Yves Cuilleron in the Rhône.

We all love an Irish connection to a wine and it is about time I mentioned Tindal Wine Merchant’s Spanish project 'Oludeo' which is spearheaded by winemaker Simon Tyrrell whose ‘Deux Cols’ and ‘Atelier des Sources’ wines I have mentioned in the past (Bradleys, 1601, Searsons). Thankfully these Spanish regions have later harvests so Simon doesn’t need to bi-locate.