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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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Albertine bids farewell, for now

Iconic London shop closes after 44 years
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Classified information

What’s the best way to rank a region’s producers?
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The Hackney Empire

The London borough is home to a new branch of Provisions
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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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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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