Wine with Leslie: The best wines to fill your glass for those warmer days

The sunshine even had me digging out rosés from my stash

As the weather slowly warms and I dare to think of summertime and warm days spent outside, my wine consumption has changed in recent weeks. I’ll still open the odd Rhône Syrah, young ripe Bordeaux red, or Mendoza Malbec should I need them to match a steak or stew.

But in the last two weeks it has been lighter wines on the table such as Valpolicella and Refosco from Northern Italy, Beaujolais and Pinot Noir from France, and Spätburgunder from Germany.