Easter Wines

So It Easter (or it was when I wrote it) the Birds are sing, the Bees are buzzing and the house need a good going over. Spring the season before summer and the one after winter. So what wine should we be drinking with our legs of lamb and Easter eggs; all of which in 3 mouth we wish we did not eat as our bathing suit don't look as good on us than the model in the catalog.

For those of you who are fans of a good roasted leg of lamb with leeks and all things spring I would have to say it be hard to find a more perfect match than a Spanish wine and of thous, wines from Rioja are just perfect. If you look at Spanish food you see there food is dry, rich but salty like our roast lamb. So to add to the tender, dry, juice succulent flavors get a bottle which is pack with ripe fruit and dark cheery.

For me this is:
Familia Martinez Bujanda Reserva 2001
Its a rich ripe tipple with dark blackberries, bilberries come over like a dry fruit salad.
£12.99 from Laithwaites

Still in Rioja but in the south in Borja you got the 2006 Vineyard X Spanish Garnacha
It pack with ripe, plump, peppery fruit you can not go wrong for £4.49 from Thresher/ Wine Rack; or what ether name your shop from this group gos as. Right so now you had your dinner and you are about to have your Easter eggs. So you wont a wine to go with it but you are beginning to fill a wee bit guilty that on this religious day you have not dune any thing to do with Jesse. So let kill two birds with one stone how about this wines from the Middle East from Waitrose (and here).

First up we have the Rimon Winery, Pomegranate Dessert Wine, Black Label from the land of Jesse Israel. £14.24
Its lightly fortified with pomegranate brandy which gives us a sweet, sweet fruit taste be warned do not drink with out the aid of a big bite of chocolate as it will over power you.

Next to the Border to Israel on the Lebanon side we have the Chateau Musar 2001 Bekaa Valley.
Made by my wine hero Serge Hochar who literary doggedes bullets to bring you this (I did a little write up of him and Lebanon on TheSecondGlass)

Its soft, velvety, peppery, spicy ready to melt and blend it self with a bight of dark chocolate to produce a sensation of lust. £17.09

So happy Easter (sorry it late) from GoJ.