Last Orders (for delivery) Please
By Charles Lea on 15/12/2012
The time is fast approaching.
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Decisions, decisions and Christmas decisions – here’s one we’ve made for you.
By Charles Lea on 13/12/2012
The L&S Christmas Hamper case The cut-off for country deliveries is fast aproaching (you need to get your order in by Sunday night to be sure of getting your wine for Christmas). Part of the problem is often just making a choice, so here is a mixed case of our favourites in our enormous range which will sort out a multitude of Christmas drinking opportunities.
Lionel Gosseaume’s Exceptional Loire White
By Charles Lea on 11/12/2012
Bring a bit of real summer to this dark time of year with some of this amazing white. It includes a variety which might test even the authors of the new great tome 'Wine Grapes', (Jancis Robinson MW, Julia Harding MW and Swiss botanist Dr José Vouillamoz).
Victoria Moore’s Christmas recommendations at L&S in The Telegraph
By Charles Lea on 09/12/2012
From Victoria Moore's column in yesterday's Telegraph, a little raft of recommendations from our last tasting.
Ham & High
By Charles Lea on 08/12/2012
Nice note from Liz Sagues in the Ham & High this week:- "I’d planned to write about several more excellent independent merchants here, but there is room only for a quick focus on one, Lea & Sandeman (shops in Chelsea, Kensington, Barnes and Chiswick, online at www.
Wines in the Press last weekend
By Charles Lea on 08/12/2012
'Light and brisk or solid and savoury? Choose your Christmas bubbly.
Terras d’Alter December baker’s dozen offer
By Charles Lea on 30/11/2012
Many of our customers have been very happy to be introduced to the great value wines from Terras d'Alter over the last year. Obviously we would like even more people to try them, and unsurprisingly so would the winemaker, Peter Bright. Peter's Aussie origins are evident in the fresh fruit and clean brightness of all of these wines.
Star Buy in Jane MacQuitty’s The Times top 50 ‘Best white wines for winter’
By Charles Lea on 24/11/2012
STAR BUY in Jane Macquitty’s The Times 50 white wines for Christmas 2012. “Superior Picpoul de Pinet, like this star, is worth splashing out on. This zesty 2011, with oodles of ripe, fat, lemon-peel and greengage-layered fruit, closing on a fine, smokey, steely, minerally finish is a triumph. Best with fish of seafood or as an aperitif.”
L&S 2012 Winter Champagne Offers – Louis Roederer
By Charles Lea on 24/11/2012
Saturday, and grey old day in London town, so if you are in the capital, and the weather makes you think you'd rather stay in, you can always shop online. If you feel like getting out, maybe see you for breakfast in Portobello. Here's another addition to our seasonal Champagnes offer.
SOTTIMANO IN PIEMONTE – TOTAL PURITY
By Charles Lea on 22/11/2012
We have had Andrea Sottimano (from the eponymous wine estate in Piemonte) going round the shops and various restaurant customers this week, tasting his wines, culminating in a dinner at Quo Vadis. And they are just great. The Barbarescos (Barbaresci?) (no - appparently 'Barbareschi' is correct) are awesome, but it is clear from our tastings that these young wines they do benefit from being opened early if possible.
L&S 2012 Winter Champagne Offers – Pol Roger
By Charles Lea on 21/11/2012
We may be on the 'beach' here, but golly what a dreary day it is! It seems hardly to have got light today on the western borders of Chelsea.
Wine Dinner at the River Cafe with Castello del Terriccio
By KD on 17/11/2012
SOLD OUT On Thursday 13th December we are hosting our final wine dinner of 2012, in one of our favourite dining rooms in London, the private room at the River Café, with the wines of Castello del Terriccio. Patrick Sandeman was the first 'outsider' (not from the estate staff) other than the consultant oenologist Carlo Ferrini, to taste these wines, back in the early '90s.