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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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Wolf Wine to rise from the ashes

Bath premises was destroyed by fire in April
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David Perry: plastic isn’t my bag

We switched to paper carriers when plastic got embarrassing
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WM Top 100: Highly Commended wines

Wines from China and Armenia are among the “best of the rest”
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Our Top 100 winners for 2023

Winning wines emerged from a field of more than 1,000 entries
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WM Top 100: Trophy winners 2023

Meet the category champions from this year’s competition
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Profile: The Surrey Wine Cellar

The Chobham indie is focused on a retail revival after online boom
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Delayed DRS must exclude glass

Scottish government urged to avoid more chaos next March
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Brexit puts brakes on indie imports

Reader survey shows fewer wines are arriving direct from producers
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Profile: People’s Wine, Dalston

Oranges are not the only wines in this trendy Hackney enclave
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Noble Fine Liquor bids fond farewell

Hackney indie has closed after a decade of trading
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The PGI wines of Central Greece

There’s lots to discover in this diverse and unique wine region
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Win a trip of a lifetime to Argentina

You could be flying to Mendoza and Patagonia with Bodegas Argento and Otronia
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Indies are defiant despite challenges

Wine Merchant reader survey shows indies are mostly upbeat
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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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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!
Clap along if you’ve received your May edition of Clap along if you’ve received your May edition of The Wine Merchant! Inside this month: Wine Drops! Alsace bursaries! Yarm! Secret horses! Chess! People who stare! Wine cliche police! The smallest city in England! Gluck! Davy’s! Bittersweet symphonies! English still wines! Groovy Grüner! Portuguese picks! Twelve under 12! Mikhael Gorbachev! Digital version is free but you can donate £1000 to your favourite charity if you like.
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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