Wine with Leslie: What wine to drink at a barbecue? Here are the best options at every price

My selections for a barbecue this week then are not the usual rich ripe Malbecs and spicy oak-aged Riojas but wines that pair well with veg, fish and with pork.

What wine to drink at a barbecue?

From Barbecue to Shakespeare - it might not be intuitive but there is a linear connection. Harvard-based Anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking meat allowed us to absorb more nutrients and grow bigger brains and of course, we cooked that meat over fire. Sharing meat over a warm campfire in a cave or a glade led to language which led to storytelling, which eventually led to Shakespeare and Joyce.

I’ve simplified the theory and added a bit of my own but I think we can all agree that there are few more satisfying meals than those cooked over fire washed down by lively fruity red and white wines or perhaps a bit of fizz.