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.

This is more serious than the Macon Villages. Fuller weight, yet remains bright and clear. Some pretty yellow fruit, less grip at the outset, but this does grow. Nice firm citrus notes and some h...(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)

Fresh, with nice tension. The flavours are ripe, verging on exotic but with a natural restraint. Almost passion fruit, then pears and peaches - all held together in a juicy expressive brightness...(more info)

Great impact here on the nose - this was bottled on the 10th of December (less than a month ago) and Pierrick explains some of the expression is muted for now as a result - and yet this is still...(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)

Good clean sweeping attack. This is clean cut yet broad and enveloping. Weighted but bright. Interesting. I really like the spice hit of ginger, the soft 'pain d'epice' note. This does does fan o...(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)

Planted in 2005. A 30% slope and poor soil, thin at the top. Originally planted with Gamay, it was abandoned after phylloxera, then brought back from being scrubland by a forester who was passion...(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)