Affordable Italy with Lea & Sandeman | Matthew Jukes, 06th July 2022

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!

I wrote up the 2020 vintage of this wine in MoneyWeek Wine Club last November and loved the flavours and persistence on the palate. So, it is exciting to announce that this wine is ever finer than last year’s model, with...(read more)

This is another favourite of mine, and the value here is terrific. There is no messing around here – just simple pleasure delivered in delicious floral, citrus and green apple freshness. What differentiates this wine fro...(read more)

I wrote up the 2009 vintage of this wine in 2010 in my MoneyWeek column when L&S first found this estate, and I have followed it closely ever since. Made from a mesmerising blend of Friulano, Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay...(read more)

The 2021 Ribolla Gialla was the model of discreet fragrance and crystalline freshness, making it an unmissable wine in this line-up (from Visintini)

This is another benchmark example of its kind, making L&S’s (affordable) white wine collection a list to be reckoned with. This time, there is nervy freshness and pithy tang throughout the palate bringing superb mine...(read more)

With electrifying greengage freshness and lovely talcy acidity, this is a thrilling Grechetto, showing that central wine regions of the country can make white wines as dramatic as those from the north.

Just sneaking into the list by virtue of the case discount, this is one of my favourite white wines in the entire K&S wine list. I have been drinking this wine long before L&S tracked it down, yet it has never be...(read more)

All of Oberto’s wines looked good, but this Dolcetto, the cheapest of the lot, impressed me with its lack of pretension, juicy, black cherry fruit and amazing, velvety texture. This is a wickedly enticing Piemontese clas...(read more)

Pure, long, classy and with a lovely bite of acidity, this is one of the most forward-drinking Nebbiolos in the collection, and many of the other wines, while lovely, were too youthful to make the grade today. While the...(read more)

I am very impressed with this joyous Valpol, and it is aromatic, seamless and mouth-watering, and these traits are exactly what I am looking for in early-drinking Valpolicella. With little tannins but lashings of acidity...(read more)

This is not a wine I would pick up off the shelves or order from a wine list. I know nothing about the estate, and my experience of Emilia Romagna wines is limited. So, when I tasted this wine and did a double-take on th...(read more)