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.

Which wine glass should be used for red, white, rosé and sparkling wine?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

Find out which glass you should using for the wine you're drinking

If you really love wine (and if you’re reading this chances are already fairly high that you do) then you’re probably the kind of person who would recoil in horror at a Champagne saucer. You know as well as we […]

Help us find the best red wine to drink with steak for Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

Help us find the very best red wine to drink with steak in time for Valentine's Day

A wise man once wrote there is no love more sincere than the love of food. But we have an amendment to that: There is no love more sincere than the love of food… and wine. With Valentine’s Day around […]

5 of the best Australian wines to drink on Australia Day

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

Big, bold Shiraz blockbusters and crisp, upfront Chardonnays are the wines that put Australia on the map. The first grape vines were sent down under on the First Fleet in 1788, but it wasn’t for another 200 years that Australian […]

The perfect steak and mushroom pie recipe for National Pie Day

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

A steak and mushroom pie served in a blue and white enamel pie tin

Beef, mushrooms and a thick red wine gravy surrounded by short, buttery pastry – we can’t think of anything better. Which is why, to celebrate National Pie Day on Wednesday 23rd January, we’ve decided to share this special recipe with […]

Help celebrate our 50th anniversary at Laithwaite’s Road Show in Cardiff

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

Head along to the Laithwaite's Road Show in Cardiff as we kick off our 50th anniversary celebrations

It’s been 50 years since Tony Laithwaite first started buying wine in France and selling it to customers in the UK. Since then a lot has changed (Tony started out with a van and little bit of help from his […]

How to enjoy claret from one of the world’s best château for a fraction of the price

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

Reserve your case of this rare-one off elite Bordeaux L'Epiphanie de St Estèphe

What claret lover doesn’t dream of slowly uncorking a bottle from one of the truly great names? As fine wine guru Robert Parker says, the romance of pouring something from a famous château “has a grip and allure that is […]

11 of our very best vegan wines

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Laithwaite's Wine

One of our top-selling reds The Waxed Bat is available in our vegan wines range

What do you mean wine isn’t vegan, isn’t it just grapes? Although that might be oversimplifying it just a bit, you’d be forgiven for not knowing that some wines are off limits if you’re living a vegan lifestyle. Which is […]

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

Posted on January 2, 2019 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 January 1, 2019 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 […]

Meet the winemaker behind the world’s best Sauvignon Blanc

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Laithwaite's Wine

Rapaura Springs Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc

At the age of 16, when his friends were contemplating careers in finance and law, Matt Thomson already had his heart set on wine. “I was an unusual kid I guess,” he chuckles while explaining how, as a teenager, he […]

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