Brodie, Black and Rippon all in Jamie Goode’s Top NZ Pinot selection
By Charles Lea on 12/10/2013
Dr Jamie Goode, who writes on his own website www.
Grape Varieties
Wine of the Week: Barda 2011 Bodegas Chacra Pinot Noir – Patagonia
By Andrew Hooper on 02/10/2013
The Barda 2011 Bodegas Chacra is our best value Pinot Noir, the best value Pinot Noir you will find this side of a day dream.
Gone to the dogs – 2013 Chiswick House Dog Show
By Andrew Hooper on 30/09/2013
A highlight of the Chiswick social calendar, the Dog Show gives people a chance to show off their pampered pooches and to gaze upon stalls piled high with doggie accoutrements that they didn’t know they didn’t need.
Charles Metcalfe, some Portuguese wine and a bonny evening in Chiswick
By Andrew Hooper on 27/09/2013
On a pleasant Wednesday evening in late September, 30 eager tasters gathered in the LEA & SANDEMAN shop in Chiswick to taste Portuguese wine and to drink in words of wisdom from a very special guest speaker. We were honoured, thrilled and really rather excited to have secured, courtesy of Wines of Portugal, the services of the great Charles Metcalfe for the evening.
The Wine Doctor on Lionel Gosseaume’s ‘Climat No. 2’
By Charles Lea on 23/09/2013
Lionel Gosseaume draws our attention to Chris Kissack’s website The Wine Doctor, in which his ‘weekend wine’ from the 16th of September was Lionel’s ‘Climat No. 2’, featuring the extremely rare Meslier Saint François grape
Release of Pol Roger 2004 – a new classic
By Charles Lea on 02/09/2013
Unlike some Champagne houses who rattle out the vintages one to the next – Pol have the strength of mind and the integrity to hang on to theirs until they are really sure that it is at the perfect point to release, allowing for early drinking for the impatient, but always with the class and depth needed for longer-term ageing.
the winner is…. Morellino di Scansano Heba Fattoria di Magliano
By Charles Lea on 29/08/2013
Agostino Lenci of Fattoria di Magliano wrote to us excitedly this week, with the news that in the 2013 'Vinellando', a competition organised by the local trade bodies for Morellino di Scansano, his 2011 MORELLINO DI SCANSANO Heba Fattoria di Magliano came out top.
i Clivi – ‘Free your Mind and your glass will follow’ Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC, Italy
By Andrew Hooper on 12/07/2013
i Clivi was created when Ferdinando Zanusso bought two dishevelled old vineyards in the early 1990's. They were in a poor state but were rescuable and their age has become key to i Clivi's success.
Wine of the Week: 2012 CASA DA SENRA VINHO VERDE LOUREIRO Lima Quinta dos Abrigueiros
By Ed H-B on 19/06/2013
UPDATE: The latest vintage of this cracking wine can be found on our website HERE for only £9.
Wine of the Week: 2010 ‘Domaine’ Domaine Bernard Baudry – Chinon
By Ed H-B on 12/06/2013
Pioneering a new vanguard of Chinon wines exemplifying purity and extraction, this is a splendid example of pure Cabernet Franc made by a seasoned expert. Rich, sumptuous, dark ruby in colour, yet with clean and precisely extracted fruit, Bernard Baudry's 2010 Domaine Chinon is a treat to drink now or will happily cellar over the next five years.
Thursday 27th June: Wine Dinner at Lutyens with Castello del Terriccio & Cantine Dei
By Ed H-B on 11/06/2013
Yes I know it's Wimbledon week, but it is still with great surprise that I find we still have a few places available for this exceptional wine dinner on Thursday.
Wine of the Week: 2012 Verdicchio Classico Superiore – Andrea Felici
By Ed H-B on 04/06/2013
This is a wonderful organic Verdicchio from the territory of Apiro in the Macerata Province of Le Marche in central Italy, without a shadow of doubt the jewel of the region. The wine: Very pale, clean, bright and minerally, good fruit in the mid-palate and a shapely, refreshing clarity of purpose - lovely summer white for those summer lunches with starched linen tablecloths.