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Four more from Italy

We've just added 4 new wines to our Italian range - a Sardinian from the Sassicaia people; a rare grape variety from Piedmont; a fancy-schmancy Montepulciano and a sweet, treat from Pantelleria.

Two new wines from the Master

We're excited to add to our range two more wines from Master of Wine, Liam Steevenson. A Bordeaux Blanc fills a space that we've wanted to fill for a while. The other, a delicate red Grenache, fulfils a need that we didn't know we had until we tried it. But OMG we need it and you need it to!

Are you new here?

We've set up 2 discount coupons for new users of this website. There's one for Rise & Vine newbies - those of you who've never shopped with us on-line before. And there's one for our loyal customers too - those of you who've shopped with us before, but may not yet have used the website. (And yes, even if you have used it before, you can use the coupon code. Just the once though, y'hear?

A good sign

Here we glow, here we glow, here we glow! Our new neon signs have just gone up and we're chuffed to bits.

We’re off!

Well as if trying to run a fledgling business during a pandemic wasn’t challenging enough, we’ve also been building a new website over the last couple of months. And here it is. Bear

July booze news

There are a few wines back in after differing lengths of absence:

After a couple of weeks waiting for stock to arrive from the continent with one of our suppliers, we welcome back Kensal favourites, Crémant de Die and our Alsace Riesling (great value, minerally, dry Riesling).

After more than a month, we now have the new vintage (2019) of the Defaix Bourgogne Blanc, a super crisp, refreshing, flinty white Burgundy from a Chablis producer in the north of the region

And after 18 months absence, we are absolutely delighted to welcome back the gorgeous, biodynamic/organic Bourgeois Diaz ‘3C’ Champagne – which now

A significant date

I believe it’s 16 weeks that have passed between the end of the Great British Bog Roll Buy Off and the start of The Summer of Love 3.0 – “The Daisy Nook Mix”.  Never has The Chemical Brothers’ Out of Control seemed more appropriate.  

Of course, the big dairy date for this weekend is “Independence Day”, alternatively the celebration of American independence from British rule, the day the pubs open, or, somewhat ironically, the day the pubs close in at least a handful of American states.  But this weekend in England all but Leicester’s pubs open for non-essential drinking and the world’s largest

This is cool

If you dropped into the shop last week, you’ll have noticed everything in upheaval once again.  Last week we had heating and air conditioning installed in the shop

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