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IN THE PRESS THIS WEEK

Two of our ROSÉS are written up in the press this week-end, not that either of them need much of a helping hand given their rate of sale, and in spite of the dreadful summer we are having! Jancis...

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Lea & Sandeman now offer FREE UK mainland delivery.

WE NOW OFFER FREE UK MAINLAND DELIVERY! Take advantage of our NEW FREE UK MAINLAND* delivery this Christmas on all orders over £100. *(some exclusions apply).   All orders received up until midnight on...

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Christmas Treats at Lea & Sandeman

CHRISTMAS TREATS at Lea & Sandeman It’s going to be carnage again in the supermarkets this Christmas, as they advertise eye-wateringly discounted prices for champagnes, whiskies, wines and just...

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Dazzling Reds for festive fare – Jancis Robinson

Dazzling reds for festive fare – selected by Jancis Robinson In Jancis Robinson’s Top 100 festive wines: part two, published in the FT Weekend Magazine, she selected a number of cracking wines from Lea...

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Rippon Vineyards, Central Otago – Beautiful wines from the world’s most...

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Rosé for Summer – order now for when you get to the beach

You may have already spotted the article in the Saturday Telegraph which featured their correspondent Victoria Moore with a huge bottle of L&S’s smash-hit, quintessential Provence rosé MiP* (Made...

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Wine & the art of seduction – Victoria Moore

Wine & the art of seduction – Victoria Moore ‘Does it matter what wine is poured when the intention is to seduce? And if so, what bottles might it be good to open? I ask these questions because I...

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Victoria Moore, The Daily Telegraph, on L&S and Patrick Sandeman

Victoria’ Moore’s article in today’s Daily Telegraph includes a good number of stories about L&S. Just to take a moment away from personal memories of Patrick (do look at the whole article, it’s a...

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Victoria Moore’s Christmas recommendations at L&S in The Telegraph

From Victoria Moore’s column in yesterday’s Telegraph, a little raft of recommendations from our last tasting… ‘Domaine les Yeuses Vermentino 2011 France (13%, Lea & Sandeman, £6.95/£6.50 mixed...

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Victoria Moore, The Telegraph and some high praise for LEA & SANDEMAN

"there are four shops – in Chiswick, Notting Hill, Barnes and Chelsea – and a reputation, achieved through a mixture of hard bloody work and elan, for selling distinctive, cleverly sourced wines, in...

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Victoria Moore loves Sipsmith VJOP – no surprise there then!

Sam Galsworthy, one of the founding trio at Sipsmith distillery on our home turf in Chiswick, has emailed me (having just touched down in Japan) somewhat excitedly with the news that his latest...

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Victoria Moore’s Christmas recommendations in THE TELEGRAPH

Victoria Moore's Christmas recommendations in THE TELEGRAPH.... Continue reading →

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Christmas Wine & Champagne Mixed Case Offers

There are not many delivery days until Christmas and New Year are upon us. Even if you're sat outside the Christmas melée, then why not send a gift to absent friends / family or to anyone for whom you...

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Two Italian favourites get special recognition

Following on from the fantastic 2006 vintage, the Tassinaia 2007 has been extremely popular in our shops of late and as Victoria Moore points out in her piece ‘Best Wine Deals’ in The Telegraph last...

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Bordeaux 2013: Victoria Moore interviews Charles Lea in The Daily Telegraph

“I arrived in Bordeaux on Sunday to taste the 2013 wines which are being shown en primeur. I think we knew all the way through last year, right from the beginning, that it was going to be a difficult...

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Ne Oublie – An unforgettable tasting of this rare old tawny port from Graham’s.

Our Wednesday afternoon a couple of weeks ago was cheered up enormously by a flying visit from Paul Symington. A more charming man it is hard to imagine, but not in a laid back, calm sort of way. ‘Ne...

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L&S 2015 Wine Magazine/Annual – on its way!

The LEA & SANDEMAN 2015 Wine Magazine/Annual Coming to your doorstep tomorrow or Friday is the new ‘2015 Lea & Sandeman ‘Wine Annual’, a magazine of photographs and pieces on some of our key...

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Victoria Moore in the Telegraph –‘don’t de-mystify’ + 2 wines in the press...

The L&S team are so used to me going on about how the fun of wine is in the complexity and nuance, the origins, the whys and wherefores of how the flavours get into a glass of wine, that they might...

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Quinta da Romaneira – Victoria Moore review

‘Our challenge has been, and remains, to find ways to vinify unfortified wines from the Douro that can take their rightful placeamong the great wines of the world, alongside the other great classic...

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Wow-factor wines for under £10 – as selected by Victoria Moore

Newspaper pieces about ‘best value’ wines are all too often littered with mass production supermarket own brands and big name labels. Whilst it is true that these certainly offer plenty of plonk for...

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“A collision of old and new” in Chianti…

We were delighted in February to welcome no fewer than seventeen of our Italian wine producers to our Italian Tasting at Getty Images Gallery. It was here that we introduced Victoria Moore to Piero...

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