About Laithwaite's Wine

Laithwaite's began in 1969, when Tony Laithwaite took a job washing bottles in Bordeaux... and fell in love with real wine and the people who make it. When he borrowed a van to share these delicious wines with friends and neighbours at home, things went so well that boutique wineries were soon queuing to take part. Today we're the UK's No.1 home-delivery wine merchant, with over 1,500 wines to choose from... including red, white and rosé, plus Champagne and sparkling, beer and cider.

Christmas cocktail recipes to get the party started

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Christmas party season is now in full swing which no doubt means mountains of mince pies will be consumed, Wham will be played on repeat and your colleagues will start wearing garish jumpers to work. Every year we go through […]

How to make the perfect mulled wine this Christmas

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

It’s official – December is here and we can finally start talking about Christmas without adopting a hushed tone and checking over our shoulder to make sure the Grinch isn’t nearby. From carols around the Christmas tree to endless boxes […]

How Laithwaite’s old wine crates are helping children learn life skills

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Pupils from a special school in Reading have visited Laithwaite’s headquarters to sell items made from recycled wine crates. Staff began their Christmas shopping on Wednesday 5th December, buying bird and bug boxes, trays, shoe racks and book marks from […]

Tony’s Diary: My first big lesson in how to buy wine

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Tony Laithwaite in France during the early days of his business

Take a trip down memory lane with this excerpt from Tony’s memoirs, published next April to celebrate 50 years since he brought those first few cases of claret back to Britain. We join the story with our hero taking on […]

Five reasons to visit our festive wine tasting at Bath Christmas Market

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

The mistletoe is being hung, twinkling lights are being strung around trees and letters are being sent to Father Christmas. But there’s another way to tell that Christmas is nearly here, the arrival of our annual festive wine tasting. Nestled […]

Top 10 must buy Christmas gifts for your wine loving friends

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Laithwaite's wine, gin and whisky Christmas gifts

What gift do you get for someone who has everything? That’s easy, especially if you have a wine lover on your list of people to buy for. At Laithwaite’s we’ve got a huge range of gifts bound to put some […]

HUGE Black Friday savings on wine and Champagne at Laithwaite’s

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Take a look at what's on offer in the Laithwaite's Black Friday Mega Deal

With Christmas approaching, we’re offering huge savings on dozens of wines this Black Friday. From our mega deal giving you 30% off 12 bottles of richly dark black reds, to discounts on a new Kiwi Sauvignon, perfectly aged Bordeaux and […]

Wine, gin and beer advent calendars perfect for the countdown to Christmas

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Count down to Christmas the grown-up way with a wine Advent calendar

Suddenly opening an Advent calendar has become a lot more fun… Why is it the kids always get their daily chocolate fix when it’s the adults who put in all the hard work ahead of Christmas? Well we’ve got the […]

Laithwaite’s Wine turns 49 today …

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Next year is the Big Birthday, but today 9th September it’s somehow 49 years since I returned from my time in Bordeaux with a case of half-bottle samples of the wine from the Cave Co-operative where I had been working […]

Take another look … Germany’s brilliant (dry) wines

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Dazzling dry whites, as well as ripe, pure fruit Pinot Noirs are the new norm for German wines … and they are well priced and utterly compelling. If you’re not yet a German wine fanatic, crack open […]

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