Top Wine Pairings For Lamb | Matching Food & Wine

Top wine pairings for lamb

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on October 3 2024 at 12:45

It’s true that lamb is one of the most wine-friendly of meats, as at home with red Bordeaux and Rioja as it is with the fruitier wines of the new world. But if you’re looking for a spot-on wine pairing it’s worth thinking just how - and for how long - you’re going to cook it.

And, though you might not have thought about it before, how old it is.

Here’s my wine pairing guide to wine with different lamb dishes

‘Baby/milk fed’ lamb

A delicacy more popular in Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Italy and south-west France than in the UK and one that deserves to be paired with fine wines - top quality Bordeaux, burgundy and Rioja, all with a few years’ bottle age. (Mature wines go well with this style of lamb)

Spring lamb served pink with fresh herbs and/or spring vegetables

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Comments: 4 (Add)

Your name: Your email address:Message: Complete our anti-spam check: Jon Killi on June 15 2021 at 18:221623777741

i do lamb rare to very rare, suppose other recommendations can be expected to work better with this.i am particularly fond of rack of mutton. wines?

david mizon on October 21 2020 at 16:191603293578

what about wine with herdwickmutton

Karen Christian on February 25 2013 at 21:331361828015

Thanks for the Côtes du Rhône Villages & Irish stew recommendation - I was really struggling with what would go well with this. Hopefully my dinner guests will enjoy it as well.

Gabriel on November 24 2012 at 18:301353781854

sometime soon, methinks! i keep loonikg at the secret asparagus patch and hoping, hoping likewise, we'll get you over when the fruit's all lush and ready to be picked some time away yet, but, ya know