Comments on: Discover more about Spanish wines

By: miles

miles — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:08:59 +0000

Spanish wines have really surprised me. I was always familiar with the Riojas, but there are so many more bodegas producing really modern wines. Excel wines seem to have a great selection of these lesser known (and perhaps higher quality) bodegas. It’s not possible to find most of these names in the UK and if you are looking to try something different it’s certainly worth investigating.

By: Hamish

Hamish — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:38:17 +0000

Although not run by locals their knowledge of Spanish wines really impressed me. On their recommendation I have enjoyed some superb wines I wouldn’t have tried otherwise! We need more sites like this and longer evenings…

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:56:06 +0000

I recently purchased a selection of really lovely wines from Excel – while the carriage charge was a little steep, the pricces of the wines themselves are not high, and it was more than made up for by the ease of using Excel and the convenience and pleasure of choosing online. I was very pleased with the mixed cases I got.

By: Ane Miren

Ane Miren — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:31:16 +0000

We’re so pleased that you find excelWines.com an interesting site. We’re also delighted that you enjoy our blog, particularly as it is a new venture for us and we’re still such novices. Any suggestions for future topics?

With regards to our high transport costs, I’m afraid that’s what it costs. We make no profit on the transport – what we charge is exactly what we pay for the transport and, unlike some other companies, we do not hide the transport costs in the price of the wines.

As we specialise in wines from smaller, boutique bodegas, many of our wines are not that easy to get hold of in the UK. In fact, we pride ourselves on having a selection of wines that are not that well-known but that we believe are excellent and will eventually be well-known, if not exactly household names among wine connoisseurs at least.

In any case, we are always delighted to source any Spanish wine for a client – all it takes is to send us an e-mail and we will do our best to obtain that wine and at the best price we can get.