By Caroline Tanner on 21/06/2023
We’re diving into the Lea & Sandeman cellars to find the perfect wines for your glass this summer. Talk to a sommelier, or a member of the wine trade, and it’s likely that they’re happy to wax lyrical about Riesling.
By Eve-Marie Letondel on 24/07/2020
As part of our ‘31 Days of Riesling’ celebration we have asked our shop teams, our in-house experts, to spill the beans on their favourite German Rieslings which you can read below. Browse all of our German Rieslings here. Staff Highlights Alex Robinson - Fulham: 2018 ESSENHEIM RIESLING Kalkstein Weingut Braunewell (£17.95 | £16.
By Andrew Hooper on 25/07/2017
Is there anything finer than a glass of Riesling? To many in the wine trade a noble Riesling is a thing of beauty to be valued, adored and written lyrically of, and drunk with suitable reverence. Outside the trade, the wider wine drinking public remains to be entirely convinced, although early signs of a Riesling renaissance are welcome.
By David Porter on 20/07/2016
[caption id="attachment_21141" align="alignright" width="349"] Rippon’s Nick Mills surveys his vines running down to the impossibly beautiful Lake Wanaka[/caption] Rippon and Felton Road are without question the two leading vineyards in New Zealand’s undisputed Pinot Noir capital - Central Otago. Both are making elegant, intense Pinots with beautiful finesse.
By Ed H-B on 03/07/2016
They say it takes 30 days to acquire a habit so we’re joining in with 'Wines of Germanys’ celebration of German Riesling during July. We have made all of these wines available by the single bottle at our usual case price so you can get to know the different styles of Riesling that we are really pleased to have discovered over the past couple of years.
By Ed H-B on 29/02/2016
As the NSPCC celebrates the 30th anniversary of Childline, we were delighted to be involved in one of the longer-running fundraising events for the NSPCC for our tenth year. This year's City Fine Wine Challenge raised a wonderful £186,500, so a big thank you to all who attended who make our work for this event so rewarding.
By Charles Lea on 14/10/2015
I met Angela Clifford (the ‘Tongue’) in North Canterbury at Easter this year, and fell in love with this project, with these wacky labels, but above all with the wines.
By Ed H-B on 04/09/2015
Jancis Robinson has just declared the 2013 RIESLING Trocken Weingut Braunewell as her wine of the week, which obviously we are very pleased about as we think this little gem is a great value (£11.95/10.95)