2024 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)

The grapes are 100% Cortese grown on a light clayey ground. This wine has a straw-yellow colour, floral and fruity fragrances of broom, nectarine and apricot. It’s a versatile wine, ideal with pairings and through a whol...(read more)

Creamy, oat meal and citrus, melon. Great intensity, bright acid underpinning delicious citrus and melon fruit. Drive and richness, but balanced by a lip smacking pure acid lift.

Celso Abbona - was a farmer with great skill and a broad mind. Dolcetto will always be king here - but his infatuation with the great wines of Condrieu led him to start experimenting with Viognier here on his own vineyar...(read more)

Manni Nossing's is one of Italy's most talented winemakers - crafting precise, limpid wines that are so satisfying it is hard to resist. Pure mountain wines that express their high alpine roots in the Valle Isarco of the...(read more)

Manni's Müller Thurgau is simply delightful. An incredible see-saw balance between quite exotic perfume, ripe fruit and some tropicality and then a brisk rush of freshness. Pure, mountain air and spring meltwater co...(read more)

Manni's Grüner Veltliner is a pure joy to taste. His fruit comes from his high vineyards at between 660-700 metres of altitude in the beautiful Eisaktaler Valley. More Austria and 'The Sound of Music' than what you...(read more)

From a single vineyard on volcanic soils in the heart of Soave Classico. The Dal Bosco family are doing great things, cultivating some of the oldest vines in the region, on steep slopes that have led to the use of Eroica...(read more)

It is so rare to find a wine with these four grapes blended together as one. For this field blend each of the varieties - Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio and Friulano are fermented separately and then blended t...(read more)

The Riserva from Zuani is the top of the crop which spends nearly a year in barrel. This small production wine is a rare treat. Bright straw yellow, shading into pale gold. The characterful nose reveals subtle hints of t...(read more)

Lovely, gentle whiff of honey, with some quince and white flowers too. Fresh and the palate has lovely fruit concentration, with good texture, beautifully well balanced and with great length.