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The Wine Merchant Top 100 winners for 2025

Around 1,000 wines were tasted – these are the ones our indies chose

MERCHANT PROFILE: MUSEUM WINES

The merchant in deepest Dorset where South African wines are a star attraction

LEEDS CITY CENTRE WELCOMES RINSE

Gemma and Elis focus on natural wine

Boost your Alsace sales with a £300 bursary

Alsace Wines is offering cash to 10 independent merchants

Cambridge Wine boss joins WSTA board

Hal Wilson will serve a three-year term

NEW LEASE OF LIFE FOR WIMBLEDON INDIE

New owners make key changes to Artisans Depot

MERCHANT PROFILE: VINOTOPIA

The Nailsworth merchant returns to a barn

Condor subsidises WSTA fees for indies

First year will cost merchants £150 instead £250

Daniel Lambert Wines mourns ‘proud ambassador’

Tim Hollis-Carroll has died after a short illness

MAJESTIC ACQUIRES ENOTRIA&COE

Majestic moves to ‘turbocharge’ its on-trade ambitions

Our California Collection winners for 2025

Chardonnay and Pinot are the top performers in this year’s indie judging

New Loire agency for Daniel Lambert Wines

Complices de Loire joins the indie supplier’s portfolio

Boutinot tops the popularity chart again

Our 2025 Survey of Independents results are out

MERCHANT PROFILE: RIPPONDEN WINE CO

From Asda to indie, Ray Nicholls has no regrets

RISING STARS

Patrycja Raszewska, Gills & Co, Sheffield

Two new Australian agencies for Berkmann

Kooyong and Rieslingfreak join the importer’s line-up

PHILGLAS & SWIGGOT TO CLOSE

The end of an era as O’Briens fail to sell

Two new agencies for Jeroboams

Mouchão and Domaine de la Chapelle join the London merchant’s line-up

Nickolls & Perks buys Wine Collector

Stourbridge merchant will run platform for traders and investors

Three new agencies for Fells

Hambledon, Joseph Burrier and Altesino join the line-up

HANDS OFF OUR WINE

How big a problem is shoplifting? Three indies tell their stories

New name for south London merchant

Former Unwined in Tooting is now Indie Wine Club

Off to Navarra with five indies

Reporting back from a memorable buying trip in late 2024

FOCUS: SOUTH AFRICA

David Williams has the macro-economic, 365th birthday blues

ADVENTURES IN ARGENTINA

Exploring viticulture on the edge in the Patagonian desert

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