Wine with Leslie: How about a fun lively fruity red for barbecues, that will also work chilled?

— wines that work very pleasingly with a bbq or takeaway pizza and a movie

'Marina di Pescara' Tourist Port, situated in the centre of the city of Pescara in the Abruzzo region

Like all of you reading this I suspect, I’ve been watching far too much television in recent months and a current fad in our house has been for 'spaghetti westerns'. Sergio Leone used Italian and Spanish locations and we have worked our way through his oeuvre while sampling various Italian and Spanish wines (both Spain and Italy were used as locations).

Prior to writing this column I watched the two Enzo Barboni ‘Trinity’ comedy westerns which are available on Youtube: They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name. These were shot in Central Italy — the latter in Abruzzo and the former in Lazio. Massively successful when released in the 70s, I must admit they are not as hilarious as I thought when I first saw them aged about 14 but are still pleasingly escapist and worked very well with a couple of glasses of Montepulciano D’Abruzzo and takeaway pizza.