They included cognà (grape chutney), classic Piedmontese green and red sauces called bagnet, horseradish, mostarda di Cremona (mixed sweet and spicy fruit), a honey and walnut sauce, and a hot mustard.

Get your full-bodied red right out of the bottle: decant the lot, or simply roll the liquid round big-bowled glasses before moving in to savour all that rich, spicy fruit.

I was especially taken by the reds, which, whatever the blend of grapes, offered lovely aromas and flavors of wildflowers, spicy fruit and an occasional bit of attractive funkiness.

Puncon: A spicy fruit, most often used in jam and confections.

Its spicy fruits are used for preparing vegetables, curry and fine pickles and can attract helpful insectivores; the plant also is used in folk medicine and herbalism.

It was closer to a golden color than a pale white, but it had lost none of its spicy fruit and little if any of its lively acidity.

In an article, he described the blend as having "smooth, spicy fruit" and "plush tannins."

The separate lots are well integrated, the tannins are soft and the wine tastes like spicy macerated dark fruits.

It's an old-time pear, producing spicy fruits with tough cinnamon-colored skin.

The Wine Rack Pinot Blanc d'Alsace 1987, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, £4.95; subtly fragrant with full-bodied, lightly spicy fruit.