White wine pot roasted lamb, Beronia, Rioja

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Bodegas Beronia, La Rioja, lunch

ByQin Xie 25/09/201318/03/2016

Menu from a lunch at Bodegas Beronia in Rioja, Spain, with food made by the resident chef to match Beronia wines:

Chorizo, potato, grilled pepper and morcilla

Riojan vegetable soup

White wine roasted lamb

Vin santo tiramisu

Chorizo, mashed potato, grilled pepper, morcilla, Beronia, Rioja

This was an unusual lunch in that it was cooked by the winery’s in-house chef.

The food is rustic in a sort of home-cooked, dinner party style. But it was really flavoursome and went well with the Rioja wines.

I think perhaps the most impressive part was the lamb. Sizeable whole pieces, cooked on the bone with white wine, served in its cooking juices.

Qin Xie

Qin Xie is a London based food, wine and travel journalist and trained chef.

When not infiltrating Michelin restaurants as a kitchen tourist, she writes about food, drink and travel. Her work has appeared on Yahoo, FT, The Times and CNN.

Her first cookbook, co-authored with YS Peng at Hunan Restaurant, is out March 2014.

According to friends, her watch is always set to UTC -- ready for the next big adventure. In reality, she is happiest at the dinner table or by the sea.