The wine and spirit trade magazine Harpers has published a list of the best 50 independent wine merchants in the UK (June 2017)
The 50 Best Indies Awards, recognising those independent merchants that have done the most to drive forward quality and innovation, while engaging their customers and providing a benchmark for the trade – as chosen by a UK-wide judging academy of respected trade figures, peers and communicators.
The list does represent some considered judgements on what the best independent wine merchants are about – so not just price or pile-it-high/sell-it-cheap booze warehouses, but those entrepreneurs who are passionate about wine and whose aim is to help the consumer make better-informed choices and/or discover something new or different! I still like to think of wine as more than just another commodity or beverage!
The list in alphabetical order:
- AMPS in Oundle
- BERRY, BROS & RUDD , London & Basingstoke
- BOTTLE APOSTLE, London
- BOTTLE SHOP – Cardiff wine merchant
- BUTLERS WINE CELLAR, Brighton
- CAMBRIDGE WINE MERCHANTS
- CHEERS WINE MERCHANTS – Swansea
- CONNOLLYS of Birmingham
- CORKS OF COTHAM in Bristol
- CORKS OUT in Cheshire
- D. BYRNE & Co of Clitheroe
- DUNCAN MURRAY WINES, Leicestershire
- FLAGSHIP WINES – Hertfordshire
- GRAPE AND GRIND in Bristol
- HANDFORD WINES , London
- HANGING DITCH – Manchester
- HARPER WELLS, Norwich
- HARROGATE FINE WINE
- HAYNES HANSON & CLARK – London,Cotswolds, Hampshire & Suffolk
- HEDONISM WINES – Mayfair wine merchant
- HENNINGS WINE, West Sussex
- HIGHBURY VINTNERS – wine merchant
- JAMES NICHOLSON in Northern Ireland
- LE VIGNOBLE – Plymouth
- LEA & SANDEMAN in London
- LOKI WINE, Birmingham
- LUVIANS Bottle Shop – Fife
- MITCHELLS WINE – Sheffield
- NOEL YOUNG WINES , Cambridge
- OLD BRIDGE WINE SHOP – Huntingdon
- OXFORD WINE COMPANY
- PLANET OF THE GRAPES – London
- RESERVE WINES in Manchester
- RICHARD GRANGER WINES in the North East
- SALUT WINES – Manchester
- SAMPLER, The – London
- SECRET CELLAR, The
- SOLENT CELLAR, The
- SOUTH DOWNS CELLARS
- TANNERS in Shrewsbury and elsewhere
- Top 50 Independent Wine Merchants
- VAGABOND WINES in London
- VIADER VINTNERS – Cardiff
- VINO WINES – Edinburgh wine merchants
- WHALLEY WINE SHOP near Clitheroe
- WOODWINTERS, Wines and Whiskies, Scotland
- YAPP BROTHERS, Mere
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