Barnes Late Night Shopping and the legendary MULLED WINE recipe.
By Ed H-B on 12/12/2014
The secret being a good measure of port and a slug of brandy.
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L&S Sandeman Christmas Champagne Offers
By Ed H-B on 12/12/2014
Christmas Champagne Offers This year Lea & Sandeman was awarded ‘Independent Retailer of the Year’ at the International Wine & Spirits Challenge, To celebrate we have put together this mix of carefully chosen Grandes Marques and exquisitely individual grower champagnes as part of this year's Christmas Champagne offers to give you a choice for all occasions.
Buon Natale! The Lea & Sandeman Italian Christmas Mixed Case
By Ed H-B on 11/12/2014
Our Italian wine list expands year by year and this 12 bottle Italian Christmas mixed case makes a perfect answer to any question Christmas might throw at you. Fizz, white, red and even a little glass of Vin Santo,
Lea & Sandeman Complete Christmas Mixed Case
By Ed H-B on 07/12/2014
Everything you need for a perfect Christmas in a 12 bottle mixed case. Ideal drinking for Christmas day or to send to friends, relatives or colleagues as a gift. Our price includes VAT and free nationwide* delivery as always.
Christmas Burgundy Mixed Case
By Ed H-B on 06/12/2014
From our Christmas Burgundy selection we have carefully chosen this perfect mix of wines to see you through the next few frantic weeks. Burgundy can be notoriously difficult to navigate, but here we've done the hard work for you and hand picked 3 pairs of reds and 3 pairs of whites that are all drinking perfectly - You can see all of our tasting notes on our website.
Christmas Grower Champagne offers from L&S feat. Larmandier-Bernier & Egly-Ouriet.
By Ed H-B on 04/12/2014
Antonio Galloni (un véritable ‘nez professionnel’) recently reviewed a clutch of wines from two of our favourite grower producer Champagne producers: Larmandier-Bernier and Egly-Ouriet.
Our top Bordeaux wine selection for Christmas
By Ed H-B on 01/12/2014
This is a very limited offering of a very few of our drinking Bordeaux wines, all of which will let your guests know you are spoiling them without ruining you. Free delivery included.
Happy Thanksgiving! A selection of great thanksgiving wines for tomorrow.
By Andrew Hooper on 26/11/2014
This dinner needs wine – what dinner doesn’t? – and here’s a few suggestions.
A good turkey calls for Pinot Noir…
2012 Fuligni Ginestreto featured in The Times
By Ed H-B on 23/11/2014
Made by one of Montalcino’s top producers, at c. £20 a bottle the Ginestreto is a snip of the price of a Brunello (although relatively speaking Fuligni’s Brunellos still blow the socks off Bordeaux wines at the same price point), but still offers a beautifully balanced wine; its ripe cherry fruit and hints of tobacco leaf dressed in light satin tannins with a thirst quenching strand of acidity makes a wine suited to drinking on its own or paired with lighter dishes.
Wine Car Boot: Next Friday 28th November – Old Spitalfields market
By Ed H-B on 21/11/2014
Join us and a host of London’s top brick and mortar independent wine merchants next Friday for another Wine Car Boot at Spitalfields market. Tickets just £10 – book here
Great White Burgundy recommended by Jane Macquitty in The Times
By Charles Lea on 16/11/2014
Jane MacQuitty recommends this sophisticated white Burgundy in glowing terms in her piece on the 1st November. As usual, once white Burgundy nears maturity it does not last long – 15 cases left of this vintage at time of writing, so get your skates on.