2024 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)

Creamy, oat meal and citrus, melon. Great intensity, bright acid underpinning delicious citrus and melon fruit. Drive and richness, but balanced by a lip smacking pure acid lift.

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)

From a single vineyard on volcanic soils in the heart of Soave Classico. The Dal Bosco family are doing great things, cultivating some of the oldest vines in the region, on steep slopes that have led to the use of Eroica...(read more)

Lovely, gentle whiff of honey, with some quince and white flowers too. Fresh and the palate has lovely fruit concentration, with good texture, beautifully well balanced and with great length.

The vineyard here is laden with bits of ancient oyster shells from the times when this part of Italy was under the sea, and this is where the name Ostrea comes from. As you might hope there is a good mineral line coursin...(read more)

70% Chardonnay & 30% Sauvignon older tonneaux 10% of Chardonnay aged in steel and one new barrel. Cut hay, citrus and white flowers. Sapid and bright, ripe citrus, core of wet stone, salty tang, intense and long.

This gorgeous Orvieto spends about 4-5 months on the lees. is a blend of 4 grapes - Trebbiano Toscano, Grechetto, Verdelho and Sauvignon Blanc - each adding extra depth, fruit and texture - but perfectly melded in to a g...(read more)

These wines are always a joy to drink, aromas of wild flowers, white peach and citrus fruit. In the mouth there is a juiciness to the fruit, peach and nectarine flesh, back notes of aromatic herbs and flowers and then a...(read more)

The 2021 Le Paglie has a richer, weightier nose than the last release, but that breadth is well tempered with a good line acidity too. On the palate there is a good weight of fruit, nothing too heavy though. Fine, hefty...(read more)

The 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo is one of the best Nebbiolos I have tasted in this vintage so far. The warm, dry vintage added a bit of mid-palate richness, but there are no angular contours here, suggesting these vines handled...(read more)