Off the beaten track. Onto the wine rack.
We help independent wine merchants, bars and pubs discover distinctive wines from Europe’s overlooked regions.
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Field Guide
Stories from the families, regions and native grapes behind our wines.
- The best wine Substacks to add to your reading list
Some wine writing helps you choose a bottle. Some helps you understand the people drinking it. The most useful reading list has room for both. - Wine event bottle calculator
How many bottles do you need for a wine tasting? Our wine event bottle calculator takes the guesswork out of planning. - How should wine shops adapt to changing drinking habits?
Drinks will continue to bring us together, whatever the format. - China is buying less wine. So why is it buying more from Serbia?
At Wine Vision Serbia, Asian buyers were already building markets for wines British merchants still regard as obscure. - Wine is in structural decline. Are family wineries built to survive it?
The question is whether the family winery, often assumed to be the vulnerable part of the industry, might actually possess some of the characteristics that become more valuable as wine consumption declines. - Brda: your customers’ next favourite white could come from somewhere they’ve never heard of
Goriška Brda, in western Slovenia, is a less familiar name on British wine lists. But if you enjoy discovering serious wines before everyone else starts talking about them, it deserves your attention.
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