We’re wine nuts, not wine snobs. We’ve been exploring the world on a mission to find great wine for the last 50 years. If you love adventure as much as we do, you belong with us.
We know our winegrowers like family – and in some cases they actually are. Expect to hear from these legends of the soil, see behind the scenes access into vineyards and wineries and get news on fresh finds from our travels on this page.
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After all that hard work, planning and cooking, Christmas is over for another year and we can start looking forward to 2019. Whether you’ve been invited to a huge party or are planning on spending the night curled up on […]
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