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.

Aromatic and gently bold, white flowers and apricot, lovely palate weight, richness, grip and verve. There is an apricot-like density with a deftly spicy undertow. No excess weight here at all. This remains bright and pe...(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)

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

Visintini Pinot Grigio Ramato 2023, Friuli Colli Orientali, is a dry rosé, essentially, made from Pinot Grigio, that tastes of nectarine, prickly pear and galangal.

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)

Fennel, crushed stones, yellow plums and nectarine. Sleek and elegant, good weight of stone fruits, crushed stones once more, nut paste and camomile on the finish.

Greater purity and intensity, salty, crushed stone, very mineral and sleek.

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)