WINE OF THE WEEK: Bel Colle Verduno Pelaverga 2016, Piedmont, Italy
£15.95, Jeroboams This red is sheer pleasure: not demanding, not challenging, just delicious. It’s pale garnet in colour, has a perfume of roses and wild strawberries and flavours of strawberries and freshly ground white pepper. It’s soft, juicy, dry, oak-free and very low in tannin, making it as good a partner for tuna and other fish as for cured and air-dried hams, bresaola, or chicken. Now for the background: Verduno is in the north west corner of Barolo, but Verduno Pelav