{"id":1024,"date":"2011-10-20T08:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T08:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2012-02-04T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:59:46","slug":"report-on-the-lea-sandeman-autumn-tasting-at-the-vintners-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/report-on-the-lea-sandeman-autumn-tasting-at-the-vintners-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the Lea &#038; Sandeman Autumn Tasting at the Vintners&#8217; Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/a-wine-tasting-at-the-vintners-hall-monday-october-17th\/\">Lea &amp; Sandeman Autumn tasting<\/a> was great fun for us all, attended during the day by many journalists and\u00a0trade buyers, and\u00a0in the evening by nearly 200 paying customers, many of who took advantage of the evening&#8217;s offer to refund their ticket in full against the value of orders taken on the night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00983.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1077\" title=\"Vintners' Hall - all set\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00983.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four producers took the opportunity to present their\u00a0products themselves, and Mario Zanusso of <a title=\"I Clivi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/producer\/1132\/i+Clivi.html\" target=\"_blank\">I Clivi<\/a> in Friuli, Giuliana Cavazza of <a title=\"Castello del Terriccio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/producer\/81\/Castello+del+Terriccio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Castello del Terriccio<\/a> in the Tuscan Maremma, Andrea Sottimano of <a title=\"Sottimano\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/producer\/1478\/Sottimano.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sottimano<\/a> in Barbaresco and Pierre Dubarry of <a title=\"Moyet Cognac\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/producer\/573\/Moyet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cognac Moyet<\/a> reported excellent\u00a0reactions and a very enjoyable day of feedback and intelligent chat about the wines and Cognacs they were showing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00993.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1078\" title=\"Team talk before the crowds arrive\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC00993.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In total there were over 130 wines available to taste, a huge range but still only a tiny minority of L&amp;S&#8217;s current offering, selected for this tasting largely on the basis that they had not been shown is tastings earlier in the year. 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