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Are The Good Times Over For Laithwaites?

by Gavino on 13. Jun, 2009 in But Seriously...

Question: What do Laithwaites, Sunday Times Wine Club, Telegraph Wine Service, Natwest Wine Club, British Airways Wine Club, Warehouse Wines, Avery’s, and (pause for breath!) Virgin Wines have in common? Answer: They are all owned by Direct Wines, the behemoth of the UK wine by the case market. Founded upon one man’s passion for Bordeaux [...]

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The Wine Society, not really a Society but they definitely sell Wine

by Gavino on 10. Oct, 2008 in WOTW News

The Wine Society (TWS) is in equal parts inspiring and frustrating. Unique in the mail order landscape, the Society is a co-operative that doesn’t pursue the profit principle. It exists in stark contrast to the behemoth that is Direct Wines and the UK consumer is all the better for it. I’ll declare my association right [...]

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