Seeing as I do 95% of the cooking at home, and I have recently developed a craving for risottos of all types, I've found that a lightly chilled bottle of Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Gravonia Crianza Rioja Blanco 2003 goes down like a homesick mole.
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For West Country wine business Red & White, location is absolutely key, as Ed Robertson reports
Read more...Convincing people of the benefits of shopping locally is a tricky business, but independent retailer Dafydd Morris, director of Cheers Wine Merchants in Swansea, shows he's up to the job.
Read more...Liberty Wines has confirmed it will not be exhibiting at the London International Wine Fair for the first time in the company's history.
Read more...Large numbers of independent on and off-trade buyers attended this week's SITT tastings in Manchester, London and Singapore.
Read more...Sheffield-based independent wine merchant Le Bon Vin has become distributor for the VinoServ wine preservation system.
Read more...Northern Rhône producer Maison Nicolas Perrin has appointed Liberty Wines as its agent in the UK and Ireland.
Read more...Liberty Wines has been appointed as the exclusive agent in the UK and Ireland for Dawson & James from Southern Tasmania.
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Last year saw a host of independent merchants compete for the coveted title of Wines from Rioja's Retailer of the Year, run in association with Harpers. Carol Emmas catches up with those who put in the hard graft and saw increased sales
Read more...PLB has made five appointments to its specialist division focused on the UK on-trade and independent sectors.
Read more...Liberty Wines moved into its new £5-million London premises that boasts an extended warehouse and tasting rooms.
Read more...Wines from Rioja has announced the winners of its Retailer of the Year Competition 2012 as Cambridge Wine Merchants, with the Longship, Orkney, as runner-up.
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Red Squirrel Wine was brought to my attention via a story I read in my local paper. As a wine guy, and someone who lives in South West London, the notion of commercial wine being produced on my doorstep I found rather intriguing, more to the fact, I had no idea Richmond had any vines.
Charlie Young, co-founder with Brett Woonton of London's Vinoteca micro-chain, took 19 guests, including his father and the former translator of Mikhail Gorbachev, on a culinary tour of Argentina as part of a new series of wine dinners it is hosting.
Read more...Liberty Wines has been appointed exclusive UK agent for Valdespino, one of the oldest Sherry bodegas in Jerez de la Frontera.
Read more...Liberty Wines is to sell a limited collection from Roussillon producer Maison Cazes comprising the oldest Rivesaltes vintages in existence.
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More suppliers are signing up to the Harpers Best Practice Guidelines designed to make trading arrangements with independent wine merchants as open and transparent as posible.
Read more...South African wine estate Kleine Zalze has moved its whole portfolio to Hatch Mansfield.
Independent wine merchants are becoming increasingly agitated by what they see as Majestic's "disgraceful" promotional tactics to take more of their market share.
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Liberty Wines is spending £4.5 million on a bespoke office and warehouse in Clapham, following its best-ever year last year.
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