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Retailers

Wine Direct

17 September 2009
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Buying from online UK wine merchant Wine Direct means that customers can choose from a selection of the UK’s best premium wines, either in a combination of single or mixed cases. Based in offices and warehouses in East Sussex and owned by former international hotelier Peter Rehberg and former multinational executive Andrew Birtley, Wine Direct [...]

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Marks & Spencer Wine

12 July 2009
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The trusted brand Marks and Spencer is famous for offering a range of items including clothing, home and beauty products and food. However, it is Marks and Spencer’s range of wine that really stands out. It won the Decanter magazines and the International wine challenges ‘Supermarket of the year’ award. M&S has also won the [...]

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Naked Wines

3 July 2009
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Naked Wines is the creation of Virgin Money and Virgin Wines founder, one Rowan Gormley who established Naked Wines in 2008 to enable wine lovers the world over to drink better wines at a fraction of the cost of the supermarket giants. Based in Norwich with a team of 25 staff and described as the [...]

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Laithwaites

20 June 2009
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The UK’s Independent Wine Merchant of the Year and ’sister’ of The Sunday Times Wine Club, Laithwaites exist to enable wine lovers to buy wine direct from the winemakers themselves, thus cutting out the middle man so that Laithwaites customers can enjoy the best tasting wines at the best prices. With a plethora of flavoursome [...]

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Oddbins

2 June 2009
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Oddbins is a chain store wine and alcohol merchant, its primary focus is on high quality, eclectic and diverse wine. It sells everyday wines that are affordable for all, to high end wines that are amongst the best in the world. Oddbins began back in 1963, and was initially set up by one man who [...]

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Majestic Wine

24 May 2009
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Majestic Wine is the UK’s biggest case wine merchant and it is not difficult to see why. They focus exclusively on those who wish to buy fairly large quantities of mixed case wine, and offer many promotions and offers to keep their customers coming back for more. Majestic has won many awards including the International [...]

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Sunday Times Wine Club

21 May 2009
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Sunday Times Wine Club has now been running for over 35 years. The Wine Club has been extremely successful over the years, picking up a stream of awards, over 3000 in total. Furthermore, reviews have highly rated the site, with nearly all customers rating their wine as good or excellent and 80% recommending the wine [...]

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Virgin Wines

18 May 2009
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Virgin Wines are a leading supplier of wine in the UK. They pride themselves on being straight talking. They don’t hype up their wines, as they say on their site, they are great believers of ’stripping the sometimes pretentious wine twaddle’. They specialise in hand made wines, unlike many supermarket brands they do not entertain [...]

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