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Burgundy, Rhone and Southern France at AB Vintners

A&B Vintners claim to be one of the leading independent specialist wine merchants with a focus on specific areas of France:

We concentrate on top-domaine wines from Burgundy, the Rhône Valley and Southern France, working very closely with such sought-after winemakers as Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey, Jean-Marie Fourrier, Gérard Gauby and Daniel Ravier (Tempier), amongst [...]

Domaine de Trevallon Provence wines from Leon Stolarski

Provence wines tend to be associated with light summery rose wines, which really does do not justice to a whole range of seriously good reds from the region. The wines of Les Baux de Provence AC can be big beasts with a streak of elegance based predominantly on Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault with a [...]

French Wine offers at Waitrose

The French Wine Festival at Waitrose (online and in its stores) runs from 26 March to 27 April 2008 and will feature a total of 48 wines.

Waitrose will be featuring 13 specially sourced small parcel wines from a wide range of less well-known appellations like Quincy, Bergerac, Provence and Lirac and the [...]

15% off at Leon Stolarski

Online French specialists Leon Stolarski Fine Wines offer new classics from Languedoc, Roussillon, Southern Rhone and Beaujolais (and South West France, Loire, Alsace…..) and have a special offer available:

For one week only, we are offering 15% off a large selection of wines from our main list. This is no ordinary sale and these [...]

Drink wine and save animals!

A red Cotes de Ventoux AOC (France) from Paul Boutinot called “Chat-en-Oeuf” (roughly translated as “cat in egg”, but also a word play on Chateauneuf”) is now available and with every bottle purchased you help the RSPCA in its mission to protect animals.

This mouth-filling red is packed with rich, juicy [...]

Joseph Barnes Wines, Saffron Walden

Essex specialists in the wines of the South of France Joseph Barnes has an attractive website and great range of wines from southern France – a definition which stretches from Collioure AC on the Mediterranean/Spanish border round to Bandol in the east beyond Marseille; and includes a good selection from the south west including [...]

Nicolas

The Nicolas chain, is a French company owned by Casel, the same parent company of Oddbins. They have only recently broken out from their London heartland and now list 51 stores in the UK.

Several branches of Oddbins have or are in the process of being converted to the Nicolas brand (Henley-on-Thames, [...]

Cave a Vins(Bertand & Nicholas), Bourne End

In genteel Buckinghamshire, at Bourne End to be precise, there is a  local wine merchant previously known as Bertrand & Nicholas which had a pretty ghastly website (now updated), but get beyond the colour scheme (or through the shop door) and you’ll discover a truly superb wine list at the refashioned Cave a [...]

Yapp Bros, Mere

I always look forward to the latest list from Yapp Brothers – the epitome of everything a good wine merchant should be – independent, knowledgable, approachable and courageous enough to offer interesting and unfamiliar wines. The former dentist’s main specialisation is in the Loire and Rhône (North and South) Valleys, but that does not [...]