Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results, along with the recipe.

Today, ‘Blow the Bank’ serves you the second of its two turkey-free dishes, aimed to guide you through the tumultuous week that marks the starting bell for the mad dash toward Chrismukah and New Year’s and help you to recover from the horrors of packed shopping aisles and empty wallets.

Lamb neck or scrag, as it’s sometimes known, is a fairly inexpensive and fatty cut of meat that cooks up a treat in casserole dishes and traditional stews. It’s also great for making simple, easy to prepare meals, such as InterWined’s own Black Friday Lambwiches.

Simply put, the Windy Peak 2006 Pinot Noir from De Bortoli, available from Sainsbury’s for £8.99, makes the perfect match for Black Friday Lambwiches, with its abundant concentration lamb-friendly aromas and fruity flavours (cherries, plums, pomegranates). Like the lamb neck, it’s young and easy-going, and makes a spot-on remedy to trials of Black Friday.

As some past reviews, this wine’s price might not technically ‘Blow the Bank’ but it might well prove difficult to find for readers. In which case, InterWined would recommend looking to one of De Bortoli’s other wine labels, of which there are several, such as the popular Gulf Station available in the US from Little Bros Beverages and K & L Wine Merchants.

InterWined’s Own Recipe In Full

Black Friday Lambwiches

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The 2004 Windy Peak Australia Sangiovese is produced be deBortoli and widely available across the US and UK.
The hints of strawberry and asphalt textures aren’t present in this bright version. And even though the blackberry and oak kinda make up for it, it tastes more new world than old.

The finish is abrupt and the body lacks weight, but the wine is fun enough to mention and should merit some conversation, whether enjoyed with friends or by oneself. It also has an earthy profile, great for more rustic foods, such as fowl with course tomatoes and olives. Would be splendid with dark chocolate: 8.3.

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