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MERCHANT PROFILE: GOLBORNE WINE & DELI

Graham Holter enjoys some time in a Notting Hill hot spot
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Italy tops global wine production table

OIV predicts a modest increase in world wine output in 2025
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Are you a champion of French wine?

Indies invited to enter VIN 2026’s annual awards
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Change of ownership for London Wine Fair

Hannah Tovey leads management buyout from Hemming Group
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LONDON SAYS HELLO TO STABLE WINES

The team from Goodbye Horses opens Islington indie
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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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FLOURISH & PROSPER, YORKSHIRE

Howden’s benevolent dictator
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THE LOST THRILL OF BILL’S

Indie expansion can have its limits, says David Williams
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Goodbye Weino BIB

Weino BIB in Dalston is under new ownership
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SHEFFIELD WINE WEEK

The city’s indies create an event to remember
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NEW BOLTON INDIE HAS FOCUS ON CAPE

Natalie Norvall opens her new shop, Norvines
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Vinomondo celebrates 15th anniversary

Julie Mills marks a big milestone for the north Wales indie
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A TASTE OF PREMIUM CHILE

A panel of independents get tasting with Condor Wines
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PROFILE: ALTEUS WINES, CROWBOROUGH

Al and Teresa Wighton are reaping rewards in East Sussex
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NORTHABOUT

Port, chocolate and sandwiches. Duncan has all the fun at the London Wine Fair
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PROFILE: MORETON WINE MERCHANTS

Melina Cucchiara has no regrets
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STOP THIS DUTY MADNESS

Hal Wilson urges indies to put pressure on MPs
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WATERLOO WELCOMES A NEW INDIE

Lower Wine Bar & Shop has an experienced team
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Wine Merchant Top 100 winners 2024

Meet the best performing wines from this year’s competition
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MERCHANT PROFILE: VIN SANTO, CHESTER

Tales from the Crypt: Simon Parkinson gives new life to an old vault
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ADVENTURES IN ARGENTINA

Exploring viticulture on the edge in the Patagonian desert
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DERVENTIO EXPANDS IN MALTON

North Yorkshire indie takes on town centre site
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JUST BUY ROSÉ ALL YEAR ROUND

Riaz Syed suggests a business plan for indies
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MERCHANT PROFILE: THEATRE OF WINE, LONDON

Welcome to Daniel Illsley’s Second Act
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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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