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UK independent wine merchants map updated

UKwinesonline.co.uk has published a Google Map showing the location of independent wine merchants and a selection of wine bars in England, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland. Visitors can also suggest other independent/online merchants for [...]

Colchester Wine Company

[ July 30, 2010; 7:15 pm; ] Having craftily bagged the web address of  www.thewinecompany.co.uk/, the people at Colchester Wine Company in Essex have developed an attractive and easy-to-navigate online wine merchant site. With a wide range of wines on offer, especially from France and Australia, Italy, Spain and New Zealand – there is bound to be something of interest to most [...]

Find food to match your wine!?

[ April 23, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Manchester’ Spanish specialist Evuna is offering a slightly different spin on Wine and Food matching with an event which lets you select a range of  dishes to go with a range of Spanish Rioja wines from Campo Viejo – Viva el Vino!
On Friday 23 April 2010, Evuna will be hosting a Gourmet Wine and Food [...]

Earle Wines in North Yorkshire

Earle Wines, based near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, aims to be “your direct link to the vineyard” – mainly French but also other regions including North and South America, Australia and New Zealand and other European countries.
…independent wine merchants specialising in importing estate bottled wines, shipped directly from the growers.  We set the challenge of [...]

Roberson’s Wine School

[ April 22, 2010; ] Many people are keen to learn more about the wine they are drinking – and choosing. Of course the best way is often to be a little disciplined about keeping track of what you like or don’t enjoy about an individual wine – building up a memory bank which helps you to understand your preferences [...]

Italian wine and food tasting in Harrogate

[ February 23, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Leeds-based Italian specialists and enthusiasts Italyabroad.com is hosting a wine and food tasting in Harrogate on 23 February 2010.
Join us for an evening of fantastic wines made by small Italian producers and delicious food at Luigis, Harrogate. The theme of the evening is Latium, the native region of Luigi, and will celebrate a region full [...]

Austrian Winemaker Dinner

[ February 9, 2010; 8:30 pm; ] Nick Dobson Wines is sponsoring a “Meet the Winemaker Dinner” on Tuesday 9 February 2010 at Café Strudel in Richmond, West London,
The evening includes a “fabulous gourmet meal” designed specially by Chef Yacine Benghazal (ex Marco-Pierre White) to accompany 7 different wines from the highly reputed Weingut Günter Triebaumer from Rust on the shores of [...]

Christmas Choices from Vineyards Direct

It is always interesting to see what choices people make for Christmas drinking. There is a tendency to save some of your best bottles for opening over the festive season, but there are some other considerations – do the wines go with the food?; will it be something which Great Aunt Maud would like (or [...]

Murcia Wine Club

A new online specialist for Spanish Wines has arrived with Murcia Wine Club. Based in Spain and catering to an international market, there is an extensive range of Spanish Wines. However, prices are in €uros and there is no online ordering  – you need to send an email. Calculating delivery costs also looks complicated.
Murcia Wine [...]

Cotswold Wine Merchant expands

Chipping Campden based independent wine merchant Bennetts Fine Wines is taking over Shipston-on-Stour merchants Edward Sheldon from 23 November.  Edward Sheldon is a long-established business with excellent original premises in Shipston-on-Stour (Warwickshire) with purpose-built cellars.
With our award winning range of wines from Burgundy, Italy and the New World, combined with their depth in Bordeaux and [...]

Chilean Wines from Wales

QP Wines is a new name to me, which claims to offer the widest selection of Chilean Wines in the UK .
Chilean wine is our speciality with over 250 varieties QP Wines is the largest stockist in the UK. Our Chilean wine is available to order via the Internet, and telephone. From our warehouse located [...]

Hix and Buck wine for F Word series

[ November 16, 2009; 6:30 pm; ] A novel combination of a dancer and mining engineer launch Hix & Buck to bring undiscovered French wines to UK and one of their wines has secured a spot on Gordon Ramsay’s new F Word series on Channel 4 TV.

Chix Chandaria, a former dancer, and Dan Roebuck, a mining engineer, have formed Hix & Buck [...]

Organic, Biodynamic Wines from Suffolk

Independent Specialist wine merchants Pageant Wines concentrates on organic wines (also vegetarian, vegan and biodynamic wines) .
… our family owned company, born out of our passion for organic wine. Pageant Wines is run by myself, Jane Christy, with my partner Thomas Schick being a Director and supporter of organic produce. Based in Framlingham, Suffolk, the [...]

Averys Summer Sale

Averys, a long-established independent wine merchant based in Bristol have launched their summer sale:
The 2009 European harvest will soon be underway and we need to clear out our cellars to make way for new arrivals. The August Summer Sale is the biggest and best sale of the year at Averys and this year the team [...]

A wee wine tasting in Edinburgh

[ February 3, 2009; ] Independent Edinburgh wine merchant l’Art du Vin was conceived and nurtured out of a passion for food and wine by Philippe Larue, Richard Bouglet, Edward Bowen;
Our focus is to supply quality wines that are made with passion, integrity and uniqueness of origin whilst being true to environmental and ethical issues. We have a wide range [...]

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