2025 L&S Italian Tasting | Wine List

Clean, luminous, refreshing and super-professional, this is a tremendous wine with uncommon value for money from a region where average bottles of wine seem to cost the earth!

Enticing aromas of toast, butter, ripe apple, citrus and nut. The palate is pure and crisp with complex layered, citrus, nut, bread and malt notes, all finished off with a brisk bright acidity that gives great length. Sm...(read more)

Saten Blanc de Blancs, 40 months on lees and 4.5g dosage. Stone fruits, yellow plums, some lovely creamy autolytic notes of baked bread and pastry undercut with citrus and a delicious gentle roundness.

Aromatic and gently bold, white flowers and apricot, lovely palate weight, richness, grip and verve. There is an apricot-like density with a deftly spicy undertow. No excess weight here at all. This remains bright and pe...(read more)

Straw-yellow in colour, this floral, fruity white is full of blossom, nectarine and apricot on the nose. The palate is bursting with fresh acidity, some lightly herbal notes and plenty of ripe stone and orchard fruits. P...(read more)

Yellow plum, white flowers, almond paste, generous but balanced, good lift, rich but with a nice acid backbone.

From seven different south- and south-east-facing vineyards in Derthona on limestone-clay soils, farmed organically (but not certified). Ambient-yeast fermentation, 9 months on the lees in tank with battonage to add that...(read more)

Manni's Müller Thurgau is simply delightful. An incredible see-saw balance between quite exotic perfume, ripe fruit and some tropicality and then a brisk rush of freshness. Pure, mountain air and spring meltwater co...(read more)

Manni's Grüner Veltliner is a pure joy to taste. His fruit comes from his high vineyards at between 660-700 metres of altitude in the beautiful Eisaktaler Valley. More Austria and 'The Sound of Music' than what you...(read more)

Manni Nossing's is one of Italy's most talented winemakers - crafting precise, limpid wines that are so satisfying it is hard to resist. Pure mountain wines that express their high alpine roots in the Valle Isarco of the...(read more)

A wine of real power and intensity from Manni. The nose is youthful and deep with ripe lime citrus, some floral touches but then a mineral drive. In the mouth this wine immediately hits you with intense wet stone, citrus...(read more)

Lovely bright aromatics of stone fruit, citrus and wild flowers. Succulent and fresh with a mouthwatering aromatic white peach, citrus and fragrant floral back note, balanced and juicy