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)

From seven different south- and south-east-facing vineyards in Derthona on limestone-clay soils, farmed organically (but not certified). Ambient-yeast fermentation, 9 months on the lees in tank with battonage to add that...(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 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.

Lovely nose, some gloss but not overdone, stone fruit, wild flowers, lemon verbena, citrus and wet stone. Sauvignon to the core at first, on the palate there is nice freshness, good acid undercut, sapid, with stone fruit...(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)

The 2023 Fiano Kratos bursts from the glass with a distinctly mineral bouquet, mixing smoke, crushed rocks and lime zest. Zesty green apples and sour citrus splash across the palate as a saline tinge peppers the senses....(read more)