Long live the independents!

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This array of more than 200 wines provides proof, we hope, of how interesting the independent wine merchants of Britain are. However hard supermarkets such as Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and to a certain extent Sainsbury's are currently working to demonstrate to the wine media that they also sell fine wine, I think it would be fair to say that few of the wines below would ever be found on a supermarket shelf.

The notes were taken in a variety of situations but particularly at two of the large wine fairs organised to showcase the wares of independent merchants...