2025 L&S Italian Tasting | Wine List

Clean, luminous, refreshing and super-professional, this is a tremendous wine with uncommon value for money from a region where average bottles of wine seem to cost the earth!

Enticing aromas of toast, butter, ripe apple, citrus and nut. The palate is pure and crisp with complex layered, citrus, nut, bread and malt notes, all finished off with a brisk bright acidity that gives great length. Sm...(read more)

Saten Blanc de Blancs, 40 months on lees and 4.5g dosage. Stone fruits, yellow plums, some lovely creamy autolytic notes of baked bread and pastry undercut with citrus and a delicious gentle roundness.

There's such an easy, breezy charm with the Visintinis' Friulano. Lemon, grapefruit and citrus herb aromas jump from the glass. On the palate there is good feel of white fruit flesh with nice concentration. Generous, rip...(read more)

The Felluga family's field blend is another winner in 2023. Lovely nose, some gloss but not overdone, stone fruit, wild flowers, lemon verbena, citrus and wet stone. It is the Sauvignon Blanc element to the fore at first...(read more)

After tasting the 'regular' bottling this Riserva is impressively different. From vines planted more than 50 years ago, the Vigna has more of everything. The taut and fresh frame is laced with beautiful acidity. Yet ther...(read more)

Wild flowers, citrus, camomile and fresh almonds. Ripe peach flesh in the mouth, sleek and floral, camomile and fresh almond once more, superb acidity underpinning the delicious ripe fruit palate with a saline kick to th...(read more)

These grapes are grown on a beautiful parcel of vines that have come down from Granny Rinaldi, another great Piedmont family, so closely linked the the Abbonas. Loaded with fragrant sour cherry, blackberry, piquant and f...(read more)

Wonderfully fragrant, raspberry and polished cherry fruit, in the background just a hint of black pepper with floral roses pushing through. A wonderfully fragrant red fruit and wild flower filled palate, with a rich tann...(read more)

Great energy and verve, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry and just a hint of something darker, lovely textural feel, well judged rich tannins, lovely acid lift and push.

Aged on lees in used French oak. Certified organic. Mid crimson. A hint of oak sweetness as well and plenty of dark-red and red fruit. Gently chewy tannins, rounded, sweet fruit and aftertaste. Deep and generous as well...(read more)

50% Merlot, 20% Cab Sauv & Franc, 10% Syrah, aged in stainless steel and older oak then concrete. Black cherry, blackberry and plum fruit, good fruit density, dark and nicely delivered with chocolate and spice on the...(read more)