Some folks find lamb a little gamey. I like it quite a lot, but no one else in my family does. I’m able to have it maybe once a year — perhaps in a stew where the flavor can be somewhat hidden by other things. Lamb chops go very well with mint jelly which also helps to mellow the taste for those folks who aren’t wild about it.
A friend who was a WW2 veteran told me about being stationed somewhere (Wyoming, I think) where the mess hall started serving locally bought mutton, which was “gamey” for sure when prepared the GI way. Finally one day, as each man passed the “main course” in the chow line, he just said “baaaa”, picked up his tray and walked out.
I was raising a heritage breed called American Blackbelly. It is known as a ‘hairless’ breed (they do have hair) not raised for wool. It lacks lanolin which is the major contributing factor to the ‘gamey’ taste which turns some people off.