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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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Off to Navarra with five indies

Reporting back from a memorable buying trip in late 2024

Jancis wants a greener industry

Excerpts from a keynote speech at Sustainability in Drinks

Secret Cellar has a new owner

Heritage Wine Company is also planning to bid for other independents

Shekleton Wines, Lincolnshire

Charlotte Shek left accountancy during lockdown to start a wine business

IRREGULAR THOUGHTS

David Perry styles it up with lemon trees, stilettos and metal polish

BAKKUS IS OPENING IN LANCING

West Sussex town gets a new wine merchant

LEBANON’S CRISIS VINTAGE

The missiles rain down, but the harvest comes in

Jeroboams: the £35m indie

The London merchant approaches its 40th anniversary in buoyant mood

Why go to trade tastings?

Indies gave autumn events a miss. Maybe 2025 will be different

PHOEBE’S AMAZING LUNCHES

Broken equipment? Who you gonna call?

HOWELL & MARSDEN OPENS IN ASHBOURNE

Henfox plans for more sites

PROFILE: SATCHELLS WINES

Max Graham-Wood talks claret, and marketing 1990s style

FOCUS: SOUTH AFRICA

David Williams has the macro-economic, 365th birthday blues

THE BLUE COATS ARE COMING

Damn Yankee has set up shop in London

JUST ADD ACID

Acidification of wine is more common than some think. Why don’t we talk about it?

BONAFIDE WINES, CHRISTCHURCH

Success is a marathon, not a sprint, for Graham Northeast

IRREGULAR THOUGHTS

Why David Perry’s garden is strictly out of bounds

OBITUARY: REMO NARDONE

The much-loved Enotria founder has died aged 89