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MERCHANT PROFILE: GOLBORNE WINE & DELI

Graham Holter enjoys some time in a Notting Hill hot spot

Italy tops global wine production table

OIV predicts a modest increase in world wine output in 2025

Are you a champion of French wine?

Indies invited to enter VIN 2026’s annual awards

Change of ownership for London Wine Fair

Hannah Tovey leads management buyout from Hemming Group

LONDON SAYS HELLO TO STABLE WINES

The team from Goodbye Horses opens Islington indie

The Vineking crashes with £800k debts

Erik Laan’s new company means Reigate branch is still trading

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Saturday Kitchen could feature indies

Show ‘is open to the idea’ of filming on location in independent wine shops

What’s happened to the AWRS?

It was meant to be in full swing by now. What has gone wrong?

Roberson quits retail to focus on ‘new ideas’

Roberson is closing its iconic shop but says it still has faith in independent retailing

Ambitious indies open more shops

Oeno, Planet of the Grapes, Vagabond and Bottle Apostle have all been busy

News flash: independent trade rises by almost 5%

The independent trade grew by 4.8% in 2014 and is now worth more than £500m…

Independents bloom in garden centres

Reserve Wines is the latest indie to bed in beside the bedding plants

Wanted: women. Any age. Must love wine

Independent wine shops still have a bit of a problem with women. It’s a fact…

Independents are just too good

At least two companies want to build retail empires that tap into a wine market…

Survey provides a glimpse of the future

Independents are taking an increasingly open-minded approach to their shops and broadening their specialism beyond…

Independents buoyed by 7% sales increase

Independent wine shops have seen their combined turnover go up by 7% over the past…

Stop trying to be cool

New world producers are obsessed with European elegance. But why?

What we did on our holidays

Reporting on The Wine Merchant’s trip to the Centre-Loire

Wine’s weird. Deal with it

Let’s celebrate the unique effect that wine has on us, and have fun expressing it

Broaden the offer, but stay special

Independent wine shops have defied the Nielsen pessimism about their category

Not oaky-dokey

Too many winemakers evidently prefer trees to vines, argues Doug Wregg

The great class elevator

Independents pride themselves on having a knowledgeable clientele. But who educates these customers?

Fizzy logic

A decline in Champagne’s fortunes has been greeted with some churlish sneering. But the Champenois…

Living with Majestic

What happens when the UK’s biggest specialist wine chain opens on your doorstep?