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Majestic's finds for autumn 2025
A mixed bag with some definite gems in it. Jancis writes Majestic’s buying team continue to do a good job, even if the consumer has to buy at least six...
Jancis Robinson
Tuesday 11 November 2025
• 9 min read
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Zubair Mohamed started selling wine at the back of his father's florist shop in Edinburgh in 1984. According to the...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. If you were to poll the British wine...
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If I told you a story about Jancis, an alleyway, a hatchet, a hooded stranger, and garlic on a foul...
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See also The popular trencherman at Liberty. One of the British Isles' most distinctive independent wine importers celebrated their twentieth...
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At the end of the last century the most innovative wine selection by far available to British wine drinkers was...
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Scottish wine merchant WoodWinters is extending its reach south of the border. Founded in 2005 by Douglas Wood, WoodWinters has...
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FMV is the amalgamation of Fields wine merchants of Sloane Avenue in London and Morris & Verdin, originally established by...
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I so liked the title of this recent London tasting that I have stolen it for this article, though it...
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I’ve known Jasper Morris MW since before he had those letters after his name. Both Oxford graduates, him three or...
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Independent wine merchants seem to have thrived across Britain over the last few years (as witness these several dozen articles)...
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The humble ampersand can be curiously irritating. Our own Julia Harding is no fan of it, for example – no...
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Italian fine wine is taken so seriously these days in the UK that it has led to the demise of...
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The constantly evolving wine merchant based at 3 St James's Street is extremely conscious of its history (long) and its...
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27 June 2017 See Will's addendum below. 23 June 2017 The wine trade has been robbed of one of its...
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Richard writes Who is Majestic Wine for? That question was easy to answer when I worked for them between 2001...
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UK wine importers Flint have followed many other British operations by opening up their own direct-to-consumer arm – an increasingly...
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