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German wine harvest hits 15-year low

Rheinhessen alone is down 23% thanks partly to autumn rains
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IRREGULAR THOUGHTS

Cold callers make David Perry hot under the collar
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SCAMMERS TARGET WINE RETAILERS

CNP payment option leaves retailers vulnerable
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PROFILE: CRUSHED & CURED, SOUTHSEA

George Bovill’s pivot from pure retail to hybrid has paid off
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Cape Winemakers Guild Auction raises record £746,000

Around 18% of rare wines on offer were bought by UK bidders
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English wine pioneer Peter Hall dies

Charismatic Breaky Bottom owner was a self-proclaimed hermit
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New indie for Gateshead

Couple will open Victor Indigo November in April
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Monkey business in Chippenham

Online merchant opens bricks and mortar shop
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Merchant Profile: York Wines

How Alex Edwards relocated and reinvigorated the business
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Are delays madeirising wines?

Heat damage reported with South American reds
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Rising Stars: Lisa Chisholm

Lisa is now on a different side of the LIquorice counter
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Q&A with David Gleave

The Liberty Wines founder would have been an ace London cabbie
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The David Perry Column

The Shaftesbury Wines boss isn’t bothered by the cold
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Second branch for Stroud Wine Co

New store is five minutes away from the first
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Merchant profile: Sarah’s Cellar

Sarah Truman finds selling wine is more fun than teaching maths
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Wee Vinoteca is not so wee anymore

Hitchin merchant opens second shop near Cambridge
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Books and wine on the same page

The similarities between indie book sellers and wine merchants
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Judges confirmed for Wine Merchant Top 100

Meet the indies putting this year’s entries through their paces
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Taste Spain – Wines from Spain Tasting

Register for the London event on Feb 28 or Leeds on March 13
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Q&A with Cliff Roberson

The Roberson and London Cru frontman has few regrets
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Keeping the on-trade on course

Provisions has launched a one-day education programme
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Merchant Profile: Dorset Wine Co

Hard graft is paying off for Jonathan Charles in Poundbury
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Corks Out looks for new sites

Both branches have been refurbed – more may follow
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Indies on the hunt for wines below £15

Squeeze on spending means value is more important than ever
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Issue 151 of The Wine Merchant is here. What's i Issue 151 of The Wine Merchant is here. 

What's inside? Nasty scammers, majestic hawks, repurposed wine bottles, guilt pangs, bleeding cocoa nibs, Sting (the singer), stings (from bees), 10,000 wine louts, people who lie about chocolate, hedonistic vermouth, Torres v Walkers, hairdresser puns, Lennon and McCartney in the northern Rhône, sesquiterpene rotundone, Leicester City and a small cheese sandwich. 

See if you can spot them all!
So sorry to hear of the passing of Peter Hall, pio So sorry to hear of the passing of Peter Hall, pioneer of English sparkling wine, self-proclaimed hermit and a wonderful raconteur who was generous with his time. Anyone with a bottle of Breaky Bottom in their collection will be toasting the memory this week of a lovely man.

Report on the Wine Merchant website, where you can also read the Q&A we did with Peter in 2022. It was the best article we ran that year – and perhaps in any year. RIP.
We used to be the only wine magazine in the world We used to be the only wine magazine in the world to publish album reviews. Now we're the only one with a psychotherapy column.

Plus: a horrible quiz, a stupid cartoon, in-store opera, people covered in treacle, the black hole of wine retailing, disappointing Belgian cuisine, and David Perry's plums.

Open your copy now while it's still got that strangely intoxicating aroma.
The 149th edition of The Wine Merchant is out ther The 149th edition of The Wine Merchant is out there in the wild. A huge milestone. We enjoyed putting it together for you and yesterday we celebrated its publication by tasting so much vermouth that parts of our mouths are jammed into unfamiliar positions and we’re talking in Dutch accents. Other than that, all good thanks 🤜
Loads of new openings, relocations and expansions Loads of new openings, relocations and expansions to read about in the latest edition of The Wine Merchant. But no closures. 

As Kate Goodman of Reserve Wines tells us in her interview, it's "probably as hard as it's ever been" for indies to keep going. But that's exactly what they're doing – and store numbers continue to rise.
We're delighted to confirm that your repeat prescr We're delighted to confirm that your repeat prescription for The Wine Merchant magazine is ready. If we haven't delivered it to your door, visit the website and follow the links to the digital version. 

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