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About Laithwaite's Wine

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. Drink responsibly. Visit drinkaware.co.uk for further health information. You must be aged 18 or over to follow.

Nikki at Le Chai – Bordeaux 2015 – Part 1

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Not content with harvest stints in McLaren Vale in Australia and Marlborough on New Zealand’s South Island, our ‘Flying Wine Writer’ Nikki completes a hat-trick of 2015 vintages in Bordeaux. Here’s her first of two reports from Le Chai au […]

Getting married? Trust Laithwaite’s with your wedding wines

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Here at Laithwaite’s, we know a thing or two about offering quality, crowd-pleasing wines at competitive prices. After all, we’ve been supplying wedding wines since 1969.

The Grape Escape

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

From Mount Etna high to Napa Valley low, quench your thirst for wine adventure. Laithwaite’s Wine has teamed up with The Winerist to offer a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the wine wonders of the world. Six weeks of iconic vineyards, breathtaking […]

Trading up – why spending more gives you better value

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

You want to buy a bottle and you want it to taste good, but you don’t want to pay over the odds. Sensible. Your budget is reasonably elastic, so should you go for the £5 bottle or splash out on […]

Wine adventurers: look no further than The Winerist

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Diana Isac, CEO of wine tour provider The Winerist, speaks to Laithwaite’s about bringing together wine lovers and experiences they’ll cherish forever. Creating the Winerist was something which began on a wine trip with friends, which took us through six […]

Nikki in New Zealand – a sad farewell

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Bannockburn fruit arrives, digging out … and sad farewell Snow had arrived down in Central Otago, up on the mountain caps, and the fruit was ready to pick in the vineyard – the Riesling and the Pinot Noir. Samples had […]

Nikki in New Zealand – working the vintage

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

Working the vintage – a really interesting experience So what have I been doing the last week and a half at Forrest Wines? It has certainly proved very different from RedHeads in the Barossa, mostly because RH was more manual, […]

How this Easter ought to taste, by our Janine Lewis

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Laithwaite's Wine

(To the sound of a siren) Vino Vino … yes I am the fourth emergency service. I am Janine Lewis, Personal Wine Advisor at Laithwaite’s, introducing wines of distinction that tantalise the taste buds and seduce the senses – with […]

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