Christmas Gift Ideas

Elegantly presented wooden gift box with a rope handle and the LEA & SANDEMAN logo on the sliding lid - well, you do want people to know you bought their gift from a proper wine merchant. Takes most 75cl wine bottles...(read more)

Nice sturdy wooden gift box with internal divider for two bottles with LEA & SANDEMAN logo on the sliding lid. Large enough for most 75cl wine bottles, including champagne.

Wonderful aromatics, strawberry, raspberry, mint and herbs, elegant and pure. Taut, wound in but exciting, richly structured, with energy and vibrancy, an electric drive, sleek and layered.

The 2013 Châteauneuf du Pape les Hauts Lieux incorporates more Mourvèdre (30%) and comes from the late ripening block on the upper plateau to the south of the estate. Inky colored, it gives up killer notes o...(read more)

A wine of gravitas and power, the 2010 Castello del Terriccio doesn't quite have the sexiness of the Lupicaia today. Instead, the flavors are deep, darker and meatier, with considerable depth and formidable tannins that...(read more)

Deep purple to black. Nose of spice, cakey fruit. Thick feel, fresh, powerful and intense. Tannins build. Intense rich finish keeps its freshness.

Nico did a bottling of this wine at the normal time, but still had quite a lot in tank when he had to move cellars. The wine was put in demi-muids (600l barrels) and moved to the cellar he shared with Ben Leroux. When Ni...(read more)

This really does have a sweet-tasting front edge, and follows through with energy. Lifted fruit flavours are here, but its really all about the vineyard - minerals and lifted joyful freshness. Long too.

‘Starts off slowly on the palate then develops into a blast of mineral, apple, honey, pineapple and light vanilla on the nose and palate. Full-bodied, with wonderful freshness and an extremely long aftertaste. I still re...(read more)