The L&S Team at the 2025 City Fine Wine Challenge
Last Thursday marked the 20th year that L&S has sponsored the NSPCC’s City Fine Wine Challenge quiz. A really proud moment for everyone involved.
It was also the first time that the event had taken place at Church House in Westminster, which we hope will become the new home for the event moving forwards.
Once again tables of lawyers, financiers, insurers and charities took part to win the coveted Patrick Sandeman Trophy, and this year, we had another new winner with Fenchurch clinching the closely fought title (helped along by our very own Tom Lorimer – pictured below, second one from the left).
The final net figure for this year’s CFWC was over £250,000 (which goes directly to the NSPCC’s Childline).
A huge thank you to Roxy Longworth whose speech was both inspiring and heart-breaking. A very courageous young lady who is doing so much good work for the NSPCC and Childline. Another lived experience that makes you realise how important the NSPCC and Childline are to vulnerable children.
Huge thanks as ever to the Event committee led by Henrietta Baldock, to Eavie Churchill, Claire Orbell, Katie Wright and their team from the NSPCC, to Quizmaster extraordinaire Matthew Jukes and to auctioneer Tom Best who were instrumental in making the L&S contribution on the wine side of the evening so successful in raising such a significant sum for NSPCC’s Childline.
Huge thanks too to all the L&S staff who give their time year after year to this great event, and ensure that it runs so smoothly (especially in a new venue where things are very unfamiliar).
For those that are interested, please find a list of the wines from the quiz below:
Whites:
2020 VERDICCHIO Riserva dei Castelli di Jesi Andrea Felici £46.95 | £41.95
2022 VIRÉ-CLESSÉ Les Raspillères Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau £34.95 | £31.25
2022 CHABLIS Domaine Moreau-Naudet £33.95 | £29.95
2023 CINERINO Viognier Marziano Abbona £28.95 | £25.75
Reds:
2022 SAPERAVI QVEVRI Qvevri Wine Cellar £27.50 | £24.50
2021 DAMASCENE Syrah Stellenbosch £39.95 | £34.95
2017 BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO Collemattoni £45.50 | £40.95
2020 CHÂTEAUNEUF DU PAPE Tradition Domaine Jean Royer £36.95 | £32.95
Case Price Discount: Enjoy our case price discount by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen.