Mâconnais

A long time favourite at L&S. Unwooded for clean lifted refreshment but with a nice weight of pear and solid peach fruit to keep it very food friendly.

Young Damien Martin is making the smartest wines of his life. This Saint Veran is one of the best values you can find in Burgundy. The 2018 has a lovely suppleness, an indulgent weight that you'd...(more info)

Pale gold, Immediate ripe nose. Quite a soft attack and a general feel of supple ripeness. A subtle bitterness of phenolics adds freshness under the pretty fruit. Very attractive and should drink...(more info)

Christophe and Dominique Lafon share the fruit of this fabulous vineyard in the heart of the Maconnais. On the nose a lovely and intense, firm, yellow fruit hit jumps out. There is a lovely tensi...(more info)

The 2016 Viré-Clessé Quintaine is showing very well, offering up a pretty bouquet of orange blossom, honeycomb and white flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, supple a...(more info)

As usual the class if this vineyard on the slopes of the rock of Vergisson itself shows through in a concentrated and mineral wine. There's a core of creamy almond, lovely richness and freshness...(more info)

Aged in a 50-50 mix of foudres and demi-muids. Prelude is an assemblage of four plots in the communes of Prissé and Chasselas, with vines up to fifty years old. All these are the first to...(more info)

This will be bottled in the Spring of 2018. Denis says that after the wines' 2nd winter in the cellar they will take on more focus and the mineral edge will come out more. Oh yes, great acidity h...(more info)

The 2014 Viré-Clessé Cuvée E. J. Thevenet is showing very well, unwinding in the glass with aromas of green orchard fruit, almond paste and honeycomb that are still quite you...(more info)

After the Crays this also has a shy nose and the same supple, glassy, transparent purity of feel. Again, the mineral power and an extra saline drive - this is yet more savoury. A superb example o...(more info)

Really impressed by these wines from Christophe, this had real pizzaz, some nice richness, creamy, ripe fig and melon, with citrus fruit underpinning the broad yet well defined palate. Good line...(more info)

This is very rare (as it is only made when exceptional vintages permit) it is the only fully botrytised wine made by Thévenet. It is fabulous, I am immediately reminded of my mother's wond...(more info)