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Updated graphic shows the true cost of wine

Bibendum’s Vinonomics diagram takes duty rise into account
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Duty increase continues “doom loop”

WSTA warns Chancellor’s decision will result in falling sales
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Hallgarten boss to step down after 16 years

No successor has yet been named for Andrew Bewes
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MERCHANT PROFILE: GOLBORNE WINE & DELI

Graham Holter enjoys some time in a Notting Hill hot spot
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The Vineking crashes with £800k debts

Erik Laan’s new company means Reigate branch is still trading
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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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Free deliveries rock independents

Wine Society drops shipping charges on orders
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Spain’s most dynamic region?

Navarra is fertile ground for UK independents
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Cost increases take their toll

Indies warn that consumers will face rising drinks prices
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Positive vibes from the Cape

South Africa’s wine industry is in ruder health than many expected
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A bit of Moldova in the Midlands

Cristine and Constantin Paunoiu have a single-country focus
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Bright Ideas: Blind Dates for Wine

Paola Tich gives a little love to some leftover Christmas bottles
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A new indie in Newport

Sara Hobday was originally only selling wine online
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A little shop with big ideas

Deborah Mcglynn-Hale opens for business near Felixstowe
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Natural born retailer

Meet Tony Resta, the Italian-born owner of London’s Yield N16 and Yield N1 stores
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BLANKbottle: 12 wines, 12 stories

Pieter Walser talks us through a dozen of his curious creations
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Rising Stars: Chloe Degg

Switching from jewellery to the wine trade was a good move
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A fresh look at Canadian wines

A selection of wines that could change your view of Canada
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Bright Ideas: Create a Podcast

Henry Butler and Cassie Gould say all you need is an iPhone
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An endangered species?

France has lost 16% of its wine growers in the past decade
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Nish is happy with change of focus

Once an Unwins, Shenfield Wines is now a thriving indie
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Second store for Johns Wines

New Fowey branch is 50 miles from the St Ives shop
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Sales boom continues for independents

Seven out of 10 merchants says annual sales have increased
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Rising Stars: Lily Ferguson-Mahan

From Chicago to London as a Wild + Lees wine pedlar
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Our final (and biggest) issue of 2025 is landing n Our final (and biggest) issue of 2025 is landing now, with an early Christmas gift of a 2026 wall planner. Never miss Xinomavro Day again!

As always there is loads going on in this edition, but that goes without saying, because the independent trade is where the fun happens. We do our best to report on it all, and throw in a few cartoons and silly captions along the way.

We next publish in January but we'll keep the website up to date in the meantime.
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.

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