About Tony Laithwaite

Tony Laithwaite, founder of Laithwaite's, whose passion for wine is still going strong!

The last bottles are often the best

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Tony Laithwaite

When any wine on our list gets down to that last remaining pallet our warehouse manager emails me, and other winos in the office. To him, he’s got a problem. Just a few boxes on a pallet … waste of […]

Tony’s Diary: Why Gaillac Perlé is my tip of the week

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Tony Laithwaite

Since Roman Times Gaillac had been considered one of the two finest wine regions in France. Then it vanished. […]

When the OHMS envelope came, I thought it was a speeding ticket!

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Tony Laithwaite

Tony has been made a CBE in The Queen’s birthday honours, but when the news arrived he thought he was in trouble! […]

Direct by Tony Laithwaite: My story … ongoing

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Tony Laithwaite

Tony Laithwaite’s book, Direct, tells the story of how he began working in the world of wine and how his business grew to become the world’s number one home-delivery wine merchant. Here he explains how it all came about … […]

Tony’s Diary: From small beginnings, how a little Fiat helped make this award-winning wine

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Tony Laithwaite

Valentino Schiotti spotted the little Fiat and its trailer filled with small grapes and knew he had to have them

“There’s a remarkable true story behind this world-conquering red … and you played a star role! “30 years ago an energetic young Italian winemaker named Valentino Schiotti was sipping a coffee in the sun as tractors hauled grapes every which […]

Jazz FM

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tony Laithwaite

A couple of months back I was invited on to Jazz FM to discuss setting up Laithwaite’s. If you’d like to hear the show you can listen online by following this link.

Q&A: Wine in the Kitchen

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Tony Laithwaite

During our Twitter Q&A with Reader’s Digest, our buyers Beth Willard and Davy Zyw wanted to answer some of the questions in more depth than 140 characters would allow them to. One of the topics was how to use wine in cooking and how to […]