Wine with Leslie: All my suggestions this week have a woman at the helm

Raise one of these glasses by women winemakers this Brigid's weekend

Even in traditionally patriarchal countries like Spain, women winemakers are everywhere

Brigid's weekend is upon us, and I can think of no better woman for the Irish people to dedicate a holiday to. Brigid is the patron saint of brewers as well as poetry and healing and we all know the story of her turning bathwater into beer — beer often leads to poetry and healing in my experience.

Brigid features prominently in the first chapter of Filthy Queens, A History of Beer in Ireland by Dr Christina Wade which is published this week by Nine Bean Rows, sister publishing house of Blasta Books whose excellent cookbooks you likely already own (if not, get that sorted). Nine Bean Rows also published Oisín Davis’s Irish Kitchen Cocktails which I also recommend.