Helen Jolliffe, London: Congratulations on this civilised and informative web site. Can you recommend a good company which delivers wine to your home? I have used The Wine Society but would...

It was announced with regret today that owing to ill health, Nick Dobson Wines will cease trading in 2012. A member of the Association of Small Direct Wine Merchants, Nick Dobson is known for the...

I couldn't resist passing on the following review of the year based on the sales figures of one of the most prominent wine merchants in the UK (with a substantial presence in Asia too):...

Stone, Vine & Sun was one of the first of Britain's current welcome wave of small independent wine merchants selling mainly by word of mouth and the internet. It was founded in Hampshire by...

Independent London merchants Charles Lea and Patrick Sandeman have built up an excellent reputation for real quality of wine and service. And what I like about them particularly is that they do...

The Wine Society is a British anomaly, a wine merchant that is owned by its members, a genuine co-operative then, and one with an uncommonly talented, and opinionated, buying team. Toby Morrhall,...

This weekend, forecast to be unseasonably hot in England and Wales, Majestic are offering some further discounts on many of their pink wines - a good move since now is a good time to consumer...

13 Sep - A few hours after this was published, my colleague Victoria Moore, wine writer on The Daily Telegraph in the UK, devoted her weekly column to lambasting Naked Wines. As I suspected,...

We don't usually present en masse a collection of tasting notes based on the wares of one UK importer since it can be difficult even for wine lovers in Britain to source the wines (they will...

Corney & Barrow very kindly offered subscribers to this site some free tickets to their summer tasting in June. They didn't come without a catch, however, since I asked the lucky few to rank...

High heels, black silk stockings, velvet ruffs, and my first ever taste of champagne... at 14, I was bedazzled by the slinky hostesses, the velour-lined electric train (complete with Disney-like...

Later - Just realised that the prices below refer to orders of at least 12 bottles, but they may be mixed. See www.jeroboams.co.uk for single bottle prices which tend to be a good 10%...

Apart from an understandable blip in 2008, Majestic Wine have consistently returned enviable profits. Now, with fewer nationwide competitors and a keener customer proposition of a six- (rather...

Wines lovers outside the UK should note that most of the wines reviewed here are in general international circulation. To find stockists where you live, as usual just go to each individual...

Below is a rich and, I hope, useful collection of tasting notes on wines in unusually wide commercial distribution, all taken at the first big tasting organised by relatively new UK online wine...