Leanne Wallace Wines

17/02/2024

If you love the taste of then fire on and drink this utter guff from Lidl.

I cant untaste that.

02/02/2024

Impromtu celebration tonight and had this in the fridge for a while. Its an Aldi UK champagne. Think it was £13.99? Not too shabby. Certainly tried alot worse champagnes that cost a hell of a lot more. I mean obviously it's not my usual type. But it's better than a prosecco for around a prosecco price. So what's not to like 🤷‍♀️

29/01/2024

I havent posted any wine for a while. Doesnt mean I don't think about it 🤣. I am on a healthy eating journey at the moment. But the husband assures me that he is taking me out next month. So I plan to take full advance of that and go for the good wine 🤣🙈. And maybe some cheese to go with it. Would be rude not to. Right......🤷‍♀️

10/01/2024

As you can tell I am not participating in such nonsense like "dry January". Pfft. No thank you.

I was however trying dry 2nd of January till 25th of January. But looks like I failed 🤨. Bloody horses this afternoon forced me into a bottle of wine. And yes I am in bed drinking a bottle of wine (don't worry I do actually have it in a glass I am not quite 100% heathen yet!).

Anyway. This wine is so good. Its like if a really classy californian chardonnay had a kid with a norse viking mead, then this would be the kid. On first taste your instantly hit with honey. I mean the clue is in the label right 🤷‍♀️. I just didn't quite expect it to have such huge honey flavour. For me there's also a really nice apricot/peach flavour coming through. It's a lush and rich wine and in terms of value for money against flavour profile I would say it's bang on. You would be hard pushed to find this flavour profile at that price range.

https://www.majestic.co.uk/wines/toast-honey-chardonnay-58201

10/01/2024

This sums up my day.

Tonight I will be having wine. Because f**k it.

Also horses are dumb.

05/01/2024

3 seater sofa coming up.....

02/01/2024

02/01/2024

Its not chocolate!

But really the Boekenhoutskloof icon is one we have known and followed for years now. Not tried it for a while and never this young.

I'll be honest price value in this bottle is..... questionable. Its £24 quid or there about and in my opinion you will get a nicer wine for around a tenner less. Having said that though I still bloody love it! This kind of wine, this young should still be completely austere and harsh, Its lush, It's supple and it's fruit forward. And, if I win a few quid on a scratch card I'd go buy a few cases to hide under the floor boards for a few years. (If my floor wasn't made of concrete 😒). So round up. Lovely wine but my opinion it is just too young. It needs a wee bitty more age to it yet. Still enjoyable. But in a few years this will be something 🤩🤩. So either buy it now and keep it, or save yourself some money and spend a tenner less on any of the M.a.n family vineyard reds available from Harrisons Fine Wines . Infact its more like 15 quid of a saving if I remember right.

Despite all that. Isn't Boekenhootskloof just simply the best word you have heard this year 🤣🥰

https://harrisonsfinewines.com/shop/ols/search?keywords=Family%20&sortOption=descend_by_match

01/01/2024

You might remember I was between 2 champagnes for the festive period. Around July time I had decided that I was going for the and I was fairly set on this until I saw the Champagne AYALA at a very similar price. What snatched it for me I think was a vintage Ayala vs a non vintage Ruinart. For me personally I love the extra depth of flavour and rich brioche taste from a well aged vintage champagne (I would go with an aged vintage champers over non vintage but I'd take a non vintage over a young vintage champagne!) So this 2016 was bang on the money!

When I worked at Exel wines the Ayala was one that we stocked and I really really enjoyed it. But we never had the . So I swayed, a lot, between the 2 of them! I made the right choice.

Ruinart. The oldest champagne house going, don't quote me, I want to say establishesd around 1730/40's, would be lush. But this is beautiful. Ayala champagne house and again don't quote me (I have had a few wines already!) I want to say 1850/60's, but bought over by in the early 2000's, have produced an absolute belter of a champagne here. Its 100% chardonnay grapes hence blanc de blancs. This is produced in limited quantities in exceptional years only. Le Blanc de Blancs is a stunning showcase of the elegance and finese of the rich chardonnay grapes. It is simply beautiful. And everything I would expect of a fine vintage champagne.

31/12/2023

Happy new year guys!

28/12/2023

Never a more appropriate gift me for me 🤣😍

26/12/2023

If like me you look for that huge chardonnay, then this is it. Absolutely delicious. Like me it is heavy but graceful 🤷‍♀️. The cream of the crop in .

I cant take credit for buying this one though. That was down to the husband and Majestic Wine.

https://www.majestic.co.uk/wines/planeta-chardonnay-13745?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkKqsBhC3ARIsAEEjuJgdRT3-VCwIP-p3Mhhw5Ruzc5VzTWjlCm7JQDKAl-dYjX574mjT6v4aAvu7EALw_wcB