Research is all in my line of work so it was that I embarked on a famous “bring a bottle” lunch yesterday at Café Anglais with the founding partners and a good friend and customer of mine.

Ruinart 86 to begin

I have to admit I don’t have a cellar stuffed with German wines. I’ve always tended to head towards white Burgundy and the Loire for my white tipples…what a fool I am!

Just recently I’ve been swiping the odd bottle of German from our cellar

We have always been enormous fans of wine from the Rhone Valley. And our buying policy always reflected this. However, there was a time when, apart from a few savvy buyers, we struggled to impart our enthusiasm to the majority of our clients.

So a couple of years ago we decided that the […]

Wine has been drunk since 6000 BC and we very much doubt that this recent turmoil will stop people enjoying it. At the same time we are aware that we need to read the market and respond to our clients needs.

I think we are all looking for reliabilty, something to cheer us up […]