MANY OF US will be having spring lamb on Easter Sunday or in the coming weeks and few wines pair as well with it as red Bordeaux. It is the largest wine growing region in France with over 120,000 hectares and almost 9,000 producers making three quarters of a billion bottles of wine every year.

While the world’s media will focus almost exclusively over the next few days on Rory McIlroy and his attempts to explain his walk out during the Honda Classic, this week’s WGC Cadillac World Championship will also be of considerable significance for Pádraig Harrington.