“Which wine goes with roast chicken?” is one of the most popular questions for our Personal Wine Advisors. There’s a quick answer – good Chardonnay – and a slightly longer one. […]
With Dry January coming to an end, 3.7 million Brits look set to toast to Thirsty February having completed four weeks alcohol free. Inhabitants of the city of Norwich have shown the greatest determination to complete the challenge, with 84% […]
With this Thursday being a special day of giving thanks for our friends across the pond, we thought we would take a look through our cellars and pick out the American wines we are truly grateful for. The Prospector California 2012 In […]
Our flagship event, Laithwaite’s LIVE London 2015 is underway and we’re celebrating our biggest event yet by giving away a case of Christmas Essentials to one of our lucky social followers! Head over to our Twitter or Facebook feeds to […]
This is the cover of a Bordeaux Direct Catalogue from 1976. Just France? Yep. The Sunday Times Wine Club may have started me off globetrotting for wines, but France was what I stuck to doing for BD customers back then; […]
With Halloween coming up this weekend, our team of wine buyers has turned to the infamous region of Transylvania, Romania to hand pick some frighteningly good pairings on everything from pumpkin to juicy rare beef. Having previously been known as […]
Just 10 days to go before our flagship event, Laithwaite’s LIVE London 2015, and we couldn’t be more excited! We hope to see you there: head over to our Twitter or Facebook feeds to enter our ticket giveaway. […]
I can’t write this week. Nothing jolly at any rate. Puisseguin is the village near Bordeaux where I first worked in wine, at the Cave Coop fifty years ago. Yesterday’s bus disaster was on the road I know so well, […]
Friday 9 Oct Harrow and Hope vineyard, Marlow I’d washed 150 grape baskets before the sun came up, this morning, before I paused to think “what the **** am I doing? In a few weeks I’ll be 70 so why […]
Friday 2nd October Tour of Ste Colombe and its two oldest buildings Tony and Barbara Laithwaite bought Château du Bourg in 1999 from the old local fishmonger with a van, Monsieur Barthoumeyroux. In fact, the house had once been three […]
