Wine with Leslie: Warm days and cold nights give the best Malbec

Here are some great selections to pair with roast lamb this Easter — and you won't want to resist this Resist beer with 100% of the proceeds going to the Red Cross to help with the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Argentine barbecue, "asado", on the embers, and glass of Malbec wine, traditional Argentine weekend meal.

Elsewhere in tomorrow’s Weekend magazine, I was asked about my typical Easter Sunday dinner and, (like most Irish people I suspect), I mention roast lamb. I don’t always go with Spring Lamb however and have often served hogget and even mutton which you can find in Halal shops. Both work particularly well marinated in yoghurt and spices and slow roasted as per Madhur Jaffrey’s classic ‘Lamb Raan Masaldar’ recipe which is worth a Google if you haven’t tried it.

Lamb Raan works particularly well with a good Argentinian Malbec and it so happens that this Easter Sunday coincides with World Malbec Day. I tend to ignore most of these grape days — but to be fair to Argentinian winemakers they invented the concept and unlike say Sauvignon Blanc (first Friday in May if you are interested), there is only one place we associate with Malbec and that is Mendoza in North Western Argentina.