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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
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MERCHANT PROFILE: MUSEUM WINES

The merchant in deepest Dorset where South African wines are a star attraction
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LEEDS CITY CENTRE WELCOMES RINSE

Gemma and Elis focus on natural wine
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Boost your Alsace sales with a £300 bursary

Alsace Wines is offering cash to 10 independent merchants
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Latest Articles

Cambridge Wine boss joins WSTA board

Hal Wilson will serve a three-year term
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NEW LEASE OF LIFE FOR WIMBLEDON INDIE

New owners make key changes to Artisans Depot
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MERCHANT PROFILE: VINOTOPIA

The Nailsworth merchant returns to a barn
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Condor subsidises WSTA fees for indies

First year will cost merchants £150 instead £250
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Daniel Lambert Wines mourns ‘proud ambassador’

Tim Hollis-Carroll has died after a short illness
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MAJESTIC ACQUIRES ENOTRIA&COE

Majestic moves to ‘turbocharge’ its on-trade ambitions
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California Collection

Our California Collection winners for 2025

Chardonnay and Pinot are the top performers in this year’s indie judging
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New Loire agency for Daniel Lambert Wines

Complices de Loire joins the indie supplier’s portfolio
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Boutinot tops the popularity chart again

Our 2025 Survey of Independents results are out
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MERCHANT PROFILE: RIPPONDEN WINE CO

From Asda to indie, Ray Nicholls has no regrets
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RISING STARS

Patrycja Raszewska, Gills & Co, Sheffield
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Two new Australian agencies for Berkmann

Kooyong and Rieslingfreak join the importer’s line-up
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PHILGLAS & SWIGGOT TO CLOSE

The end of an era as O’Briens fail to sell
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Two new agencies for Jeroboams

Mouchão and Domaine de la Chapelle join the London merchant’s line-up
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Nickolls & Perks buys Wine Collector

Stourbridge merchant will run platform for traders and investors
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Three new agencies for Fells

Hambledon, Joseph Burrier and Altesino join the line-up
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HANDS OFF OUR WINE

How big a problem is shoplifting? Three indies tell their stories
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New name for south London merchant

Former Unwined in Tooting is now Indie Wine Club
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Category Reports

Off to Navarra with five indies

Reporting back from a memorable buying trip in late 2024
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FOCUS: SOUTH AFRICA

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

Exploring viticulture on the edge in the Patagonian desert
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Arriving about now at platform 13 ... and on doorm Arriving about now at platform 13 ... and on doormats across the UK: it's the May edition of The Wine Merchant magazine.

Loads and loads and loads of things going on in this month's edition, including a brilliant picture of some goats, a fiendish quiz and a stupid cartoon.

The digital edition is live too. Access it via our website.

We'll have spare print copies on our stand at the London Wine Fair.
Once again we'll be pouring all the winning wines Once again we'll be pouring all the winning wines from The Wine Merchant Top 100 at the London Wine Fair.

If you're coming to the show, head for stand F20 (between Esoterica and Wines Unearthed) and see what our independent judges selected as this year's favourites. There are some exceptional wines.

We're looking forward to seeing you!
Did you know that you can download the entire PDF Did you know that you can download the entire PDF of The Wine Merchant Survey of Independents 2025?

It costs just £25 and is available at our website: www.winemerchantmag.com.

It contains a vast amount of information about the state of play in the independent trade. So if you work with indies – or would like to – it's something we know you'll find incredibly useful.
As always there's lots going on in the latest edit As always there's lots going on in the latest edition of The Wine Merchant, including part two of our coverage of this year's survey of independents. 

There's a stupid error in the quiz, which you'll doubtless spot, but other than that we think it's a pretty good issue. Read it online for free if you don't have the analogue version.
Huge thanks to all our fabulous indie judges who j Huge thanks to all our fabulous indie judges who joined us yesterday for the 2025 edition of The Wine Merchant Top 100. A lovely group of people who worked hard to narrow down nearly 1,000 wines to our winners and highly commended wines. We'll be unveiling their choices in May.
Every year, we invite a group of indies to taste s Every year, we invite a group of indies to taste some of the best California wines in the UK and to choose their 50 favourites. 

This year's selection features in our California Collection supplement – free with the March edition of The Wine Merchant, and in digital form via our website.

Thanks to all our judges, everyone who sent in their wines, and of course the Calfornia Wine Institite UK & Ireland.

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