By Ed H-B on 11/02/2013
As per tradition (and after a false start due to a technical hitch!) we are pleased to announce our annual bin end sale is now open. There's plenty of great wines in there which is why we hesitate to use the phrase 'Bin End' - so feel free to go ahead and fill your boots, shoes and shopping carts.
By Andrew Hooper on 06/02/2013
If you agreed to try something tasty in the alcoholic beverage line from the Czech Republic you would, in all probability, be expecting a frothing glass full of chilled bright amber-gold lager beer. Few of us, Czechs included, would expect to have a glass of wine thrust into our hand.
By Andrew Hooper on 29/01/2013
Another exhaustive taster of new vintage Burgundies is Tim Atkin MW, who has been hard at work, both at the tasting table and the lap-top, of late. If for nothing else than the beautiful photographs, his opus on the 2011 vintage is well worth a look.
By Andrew Hooper on 24/01/2013
In these straitened times, splashing out on a few cases of 2011 Burgundy might seem a tad indulgent. Well, with a miniscule (but, by all reports, excellent) 2012 vintage to follow and the Burgundians making ever more successful overtures toward the Chinese market, it could turn out that 2011 was the smart vintage to buy.
By Charles Lea on 24/12/2012
6 am Christmas Eve and all the warehouse and delivery team are at our Battersea warehouse, where the vans are being loaded with the last runs before the Christmas break. And they've done it! On Friday things were looking good first thing, with all the runs fully routed.
By Charles Lea on 19/12/2012
The deadline for deliveries before Christmas outside London is past, but if you live in (central-ish) London, you can still order online for delivery today (Wednesday), or, if you really insist on taking it to the wire, tomorrow (Thursday). Even then our magnificent warehouse crew will get your wine to you before Christmas.
By Charles Lea on 15/12/2012
The time is fast approaching.
By Charles Lea on 13/12/2012
The L&S Christmas Hamper case The cut-off for country deliveries is fast aproaching (you need to get your order in by Sunday night to be sure of getting your wine for Christmas). Part of the problem is often just making a choice, so here is a mixed case of our favourites in our enormous range which will sort out a multitude of Christmas drinking opportunities.
By Charles Lea on 11/12/2012
Bring a bit of real summer to this dark time of year with some of this amazing white. It includes a variety which might test even the authors of the new great tome 'Wine Grapes', (Jancis Robinson MW, Julia Harding MW and Swiss botanist Dr José Vouillamoz).
By Charles Lea on 09/12/2012
From Victoria Moore's column in yesterday's Telegraph, a little raft of recommendations from our last tasting.
By Charles Lea on 08/12/2012
Nice note from Liz Sagues in the Ham & High this week:- "I’d planned to write about several more excellent independent merchants here, but there is room only for a quick focus on one, Lea & Sandeman (shops in Chelsea, Kensington, Barnes and Chiswick, online at www.