English Wines, Fine Italian Wine and Argentinian Wine Merchant

On the Today Programme Radio 4 – Guy Woodward, Editor of Decanter magazine hit the news as his recent comments had offended supermarkets such as Asda when he said that you couldn’t get a decent bottle of wine for under a fiver. With current tax on wine at 56% and then allowing for bottling, transport, marketing and the rest – if you take the average spend at £ 4.50 a bottle here in the UK – that does not leave much for the nurturing of the grape.

Imagine the scene. You are a red wine producer who has been grafting away diligently for years to increase sales, get your marketing right, keep your prices down and cope with the fickleness of the weather which, whilst totally out with your control, can seriously jeopardise your annual harvest and your potential profit. Then all of a sudden the sun comes out – BIG TIME!

There's one month to go till Christmas and we're beginning to get excited over here! Now of course you'll all be needing some drinks to help you keep merry throughout the holidays and The Sussex Wine Company is here to help!

For decades now, Spanish wines have been associated with the word inexpensive and were not always delicious. Outside of the wines from Rioja, many Spanish wines were uneven in quality and even when you found a good one, a second bottle of the same wine may not nearly be as good as the first. But...

We are delighted to see our Rustico Valdobbiadene Nino Franco, on the wine list at Jamie's Italian Restaurant Brighton....