The UK wine market
I was looking at Tim Atkins’ wine column in the Observer magazine on Sunday and it made for some quite scary reading. He was discussing the 50 best sellers in the UK and it was all leading brands, no individual winemakers got a look in and while the wines are all drinkable they are generally quite bland. Do have a look at Tim’s article here: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2124467,00.html .
The good news is that we have avoided these bland wines and have put together a really interesting list with some fantastic and original wines. Not being boastful here because we have worked very closely with Nigel at Wadebridge Wines (http://www.wadebridgewines.co.uk/) to get the list right and balanced. OK we do have some more commercial wines there too but these allow us to have some more interesting ones - no Moet on the list but the Gosset is stunning! Have a look at the link on our main site to the winelist and let me know what you think. Nigel’s site isn’t quite up and running but keep an eye on it and have a good browse later on in the summer.