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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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BBC man joins wine trade

Former journalist Derek Crookes launches Kernow Wine
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The flying sourcer of Somerset

Former RAF engineer Tim Pearce now runs ‘an adult sweet shop’
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Bright Ideas: Recipe suggestions

Chefs provide inspiration for Camber Wines customers
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Labels are part of our décor

There’s a reason why good-looking bottles earn listings
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Fitz spices things up

Honky Tonk in Plymouth unveils first bespoke rum
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Australia bounces back

Winemakers have a lot of quality wine to sell to eager UK buyers
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A Languedoc-Roussillon list

David Williams offers a flavour of a complicated region
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Wine Fiend gets physical

Online retailer has opened a bricks-and-mortar shop in Cardiff
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Rising Stars: Ollie Fazekas-Cooper

Creative thinking at Vino Vero in Leigh-on-Sea
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Trade calls for duty U-turn

Indies join wider industry campaign for Treasury to abandon sliding tax scale
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The Burning Question: Couriers

Four indies tell us about their smashing experiences with delivery firms
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The beauty of Bairrada

This Atlantic-cooled region of central Portugal is perfect for independent wine merchants
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Calling California wine importers

Our panel of independents wants to taste the best wines from the golden state
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In it for the long haul

Nigel Huddleston meets Stuart Rothwell of The Vineyard at Ramsbottom, Lancs
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The British are rumming

There’s been a surge interest in UK-produced rums, says Nigel Huddleston
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Drinks marketer opens Islington shop

Must & Lees is half bottle shop, half events space
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Should you worry about supermarkets?

David Williams reports back from the multiple grocers’ tastings
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Rising Stars: Michael Huband

It seems that the teaching profession’s loss has been Amathus’s gain
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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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