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French Regional Wines, Lancaster

French Regional Wines is a Lancaster based independent online wine merchant, “the pride and joy of John Dickinson and Kate Young.”

What can you expect from us? We select and import many of the wines ourselves, the wines are specifically chosen to represent the quality and variety available from each region and to provide [...]

Leon Stolarski Fine Wines, Nottingham

It’s always good to have some of your favourite wines featured by an independent UK wine merchant – Leon Stolarski Fine Wines has selected 2 lesser-known wines from domaines I have worked with before. Laplace is one of the biggest and most respected winemakers in SW France, and interestingly Leon Stolarski has selected the [...]

Order your wines direct from the French vineyard

Sean and Caroline Feely, proprietors of the organic Bergerac Chateau Haut Garrigue also known as Wild Earth Vineyards (in the Dordogne, SW France/Aquitaine) are offering the chance to purchase their wines direct for delivery in the UK – and in time for Christmas if you order by 9th December 2008. They produce really [...]

Bergerac Book launch and Tasting in Yorkshire

Phil Hargreaves of the Hengate Wine School in East Yorkshire has just published a book on the vineyards of Bergerac in South West France (Aquitaine) – and a very thorough and informative work it is – invaluable for any lover of these wines, and/or for visitors to the region to the east of Bordeaux [...]

In praise of Cahors Wine

How refreshing to see a respected wine critic overturning a long-held prejudice – in this case Anthony Rose in the Independent (2 Aug 2008) :-

Was it only yesterday I was on holiday in Cahors in south-west France’s Lot Valley? So it seems, but it was actually 10 years ago that I took myself [...]

RED wine is good for you!

The Daily Mail (5 May 2008) reports on the findings of Dr Roger Corder (The Red Wine Diet) on the health benefits of RED wine:-

Far more important are polyphenols, the chemical compounds in grape skin and seeds. These are natural antioxidants which protect the membranes of each cell. Another important element of red [...]

Real Wine at the Real Food Festival

London’s Real Food Festival takes place at Earls Court from 24-27 April 2008, and will feature a wide range of wines for tasting alongside the other produce. Some big merchant names such as Bibendum and Vintage Roots (organic wines) will be there, but there will also be a few independent specialists AND some producers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]