Tony Laithwaite writes.... My affair with the wonderful world of wine began in the Summer of Love. While others dropped out, I got stuck in - sticking labels on claret bottles ... As a student I spent my summers working in the Bordeaux vineyards – lugging the local wine home on the train for a few family friends. Then in 1969 I bought a Ford van in order to bring real wines - wines of authenticity and character and directly to customers in the UK. Bordeaux Direct came first ... Called 'Bordeaux Direct', the original business had just five wines on the list (at 13/6d a bottle!) and only 150 customers. But slowly we began investigating vineyards further up the Dordogne ... and beyond. In the 1970's we were the first merchants - of any nationality - to prospect and buy wine from the wine regions of southern France ... Bergerac, Duras, Cahors, Madiran, Gaillac, Minervois, Saint-Chinian and so on eastwards. Then came other countries; Rioja, Bulgarian Cabernet, even wines from Australia that were first shipped in 1974. Onwards and upwards Bordeaux Direct was unique for only selling wines bottled by the producers; because they simply had more flavour, extra character, total authenticity and somehow anyone, even a newcomer to wine, could always taste that quality and goodness. Today ... over 40 years on, we're now called Laithwaites Wines and deliver wine to over 700,000 customers. We may be bigger, but we still go 'direct' in the same old way, and so keep costs down. We have a huge network of supplier contacts, some now the grandchildren of those we started with. We still only do top-quality, small production wines from producers in every corner of the known wine world. We are still travelling, still searching out the real good wines.

Alcoholic Drinks

Adults can't be without good drinks and good company. The UKs adults have just voted fine wines as their most preferred aphrodisiac drink, beating champagne! - And not a lot of people know that.

There are now a number of top quality companies, happy to deliver French wines, Italian, German, British, Australian, and any country that produces fine wines for home delivery, directly to your home, some of the rarest, some quite expensive, some very inexpensive, some of the finest quality, or just of dammed good value, wines and spirits. What if you know very little about wine? Well there are courses you can attend, run by experts, and you can even buy gift vouchers for friends who may be interested.

Then we have to consider the benefits of home delivery, allowing adults to consume alcoholic drinks such as wines, spirits, and beers, without going out to look for them. Do you own or manage a business that could benefit from having own logo wines? Are you perhaps a collector of rare wines, mature spirits, and unusual beers? Is there a special event on the horizon that will need champagne? Do you or your adult drinking guests prefer alcohol free drinks? Then of course there is a vast array of gifts, and gadgets. What if you simply can't have alcoholic drinks, but like wines and beers - I have a solution for that!

Fancy drinking quality wines and spirits - which you don't have to walk the streets looking for? Fancy investing, in quality wines and spirits - which you don't have to walk the streets looking for? Well you can order fine wines, beers, and spirits on line from virtual liquor stores (they do exist in real life too!!!). What if you are unsure as to whether you will like a particular selection of drinks - why not buy miniatures or test tube sizes, as a tasting experience. Sounds like a cracking night in to me!

By the bottle or by the case, wines beers and spirits all manner of alcoholic drinks can be selected here in just a few clicks of your mouse or keyboard, and with you in a couple of days time.

Bringing you a hand-picked selection of wines, from new British wines to wines from all over the world. Offers are of course changing frequently. My advertisers simplify the wine selection process for the consumer by scouring the globe and selecting wines from some of the best producing vineyards in the world.

By leveraging business and trade relations, along with experience in top quality duty-free products, they often offer you a wide variety of brand name products at amazing duty free prices.

Wines are available for corporate and personal occasions like holidays, special events and entertainment. You can have personalized wines with custom labels and they will of course feature the winery name, varietal (cabernet, merlot, etc..) and will list the vintage of the wines on the back label.

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