Wine with Leslie: wines for the last barbecue of 2023's Indian summer

"Recommendations this week are all from Argentina and most were tasted at the recent Argentinian Wine Fair — all punch above their price point."

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The rush of warm weather this September has had me back at barbecue duties and when I think of cooking meat over fire I always think of Argentina. 

The preference in Argentina is for low and slow cooking over or near flames and I remember seeing famed Argentinian Chef Francis Mallman setting up his wood fire in the early hours of the morning at the much missed Ballymaloe Litfest — he was starting work just as the rest of us were going to bed after the party in the big shed.