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Wine Merchant Top 100 winners unveiled

This year’s run-down according to supplier
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Judges complete marathon Top 100 judging day

The winners from the biggest-ever field of entries will appear on May 18
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Swartland pioneer signs up with Hallgarten

Zwartwater, led by Stefan Johannes, makes its debut with old-vine blends
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Sherry sampling spearheads summer campaign

A Splash of Andalusia involves indies as well as multiples
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Olive oils now part of Hatch offer

Esporão and Zuccardi extra virgin olive oils are available to indies
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Gulf crisis puts new pressure on wine prices

As diesel surcharges spiral, importers face tough decisions in the coming weeks
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Research shines a light on indie customers

Hallgarten study shows that indies are doing the right things
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Profile: Grape to Grain, Prestwich

How Tom Sneesby learnt his retail skills on the job
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Q&A: Kate Goodman, Reserve Wines

Kate looks back at 20 years as an independent merchant
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Hot properties where organic vines thrive

A memorable visit to Stefano Girelli’s Sicilian estates
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John Hoskins MW sells iconic Old Bridge

Huntington hotel and wine shop is bought by Chestnut
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Grays & Feather spreads its wings

Two new sites are opening in London
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The Long Run with Cat Brandwood

Spending quality screen time with 20 customers every Wednesday
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Provence still sets the standard

The region’s versatile rosés shine in every drinking occasion
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Profile: Liquorice Wine & Deli

The Essex indie invested in its food offer to maintain its Covid boom
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Indies forced to break bad news on duty

Even some trade customers were unaware of tax hike adding at least 44p a bottle
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Feral Pig enters boutique hotel

Wine shop opens on the premises of Llys Meddyg in Pembrokeshire
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Wine costs as much as an energy bill

Wine Merchant editor Graham Holter does the arithmetic
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Trade helps revive cult London store

Former P Franco manager Will Gee hits crowd funding target
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Merchant profile: Chesters

The Abergavenny indie is all anout good wine, vinyl and a big dog
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No such thing as everyday wine

It’s a term we should probably avoid using, argues David Williams
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Q&A: Diana Thompson

The Wine Events Scotland founder on Sting, dressage and Oz Clarke
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Merchant profile: Iron & Rose

Robin Nugent’s wines share his ethical approach to life
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Is wine inflation coming down?

Shipping costs and FX pressures are finally easing
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That’s a wrap for LWF 2026! A really busy three da That’s a wrap for LWF 2026! A really busy three days on The Wine Merchant Top 100 stand and we were delighted to share our winning wines with dozens of indies as well as all the other visitors to a buzzing Olympia. Lots of rave reviews for the wines on display and you kept us on our toes as the bottles needed frequent replenishment! We also presented the certificates to our 12 trophy winners on centre stage. Great to see so many old and new friends.
Our Wine Merchant Top 100 trophy winners have been Our Wine Merchant Top 100 trophy winners have been unveiled! Come and taste them on our stand at the London Wine Fair along with all our other winners, as chosen by our panel of 40 independent merchants in a blind tasting of 1,200 wines. Congratulations to every wine that made the cut in a record year for entries!
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Great work from all 40 of our independent judges t Great work from all 40 of our independent judges this week in The Wine Merchant Top 100 judging! We had a record entry this year so it was a particularly full-on day. But everyone worked hard to give every wine an opportunity to stake its claim for glory. We’ll have some very worthy winners to announce on May 18!
Let’s point at things in the April edition of The Let’s point at things in the April edition of The Wine Merchant! Print and digital formats as always. This month: diesel, chocolate, pilates, Paris, Taylor Swift, snuff, parcel rugby, tinned fish, loneliness in Huddersfield, antihistamine cocktails and the party piece that could have killed Rollo Gabb but didn’t. All this plus a psychotherapist (certified) and an agony aunt (unregulated). Go, go, go!
The results of our Survey of Independents are in a The results of our Survey of Independents are in and the first half of this year’s analysis appears in our March edition. The second half appears in April. But! If you don’t want to wait until then, AND you’d like the full set of results in a single PDF document, AND you’d like to see the back-end spreadsheets from which the analysis is created: you’re in luck. Download the entire thing from our website now for just £50 including VAT.

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