... and to drink

The Middle East’s most famous exporter of wine is Lebanon, a small country with a big reputation built initially around one winery – Château Musar – but now ably boosted by others. Their wines are widely available (with more work you can hunt down bottles from Syria, Israel and Turkey, too), and could be an option here along with those made closer to home.

Hamish Anderson chooses wines to match MASSAYA LE MIRABEAU ETOILE ROEBUCK ESTATE COLOMBIER 2018, ROSE 2019, BLANC DE NOIRS Lebanon, 2015, Sussex, England,

£13.95, The Wine Society —

Massaya is one of my favourite Lebanese producers and this is a blend of cinsault, grenache and tempranillo. It’s full, juicy yet fresh, and has wonderfully polished dark fruit that is cut by

fragrant spice.

Côtesde Provence, France, £15, Sainsbury’s

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Rosé has a particular ability to work with diverse dishes, so this will be just as at home with feta as it will with the chicken wings. It is a beautifully textured, layered rosé with lemon, raspberry and aromatics. £45, roebuckestates.co.uk —

I loved the first wine (2014 Classic Cuvée) I tried from this estate last year. This is another mightily impressive bottle from a single vineyard of pinot noir in West Sussex – it is complex and intense with red fruits, cashews and poached pear.