Lay & Wheeler autumn 2021
Wednesday 10 November 2021
Some serious goodies here. Castello di Volpaia, source of a great-value Tuscan red, pictured above, and below by Juan Trujillo Andrades for Lay & Wheeler.
UK wine merchant Lay & Wheeler, once owned by the Wheeler family of Colchester and briefly allied with Majestic, is in expansionist mode under its new owners, who are described by their employees as ‘international’.
I was happy to taste a range of their current wines recently with buyers Catherine Petrie MW and Robbie Toothill. Petrie’s enthusiasm for the Loire was evident in a good showing from the region and I was most taken...
Become a member to view this article and thousands more!
Premium
- 15,436 featured articles
- 274,222 wine reviews
- Maps from The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition (RRP £50)
- The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th edition (RRP £50)
- Members’ forum
Monthly
Annually
£99
Save 10% with annual membership
Professional
- 15,436 featured articles
- 274,222 wine reviews
- Maps from The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition (RRP £50)
- The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th edition (RRP £50)
- Members’ forum
- Commercial use of our Tasting Notes
£199
per year