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Types Of Wine Merchant

These days, you can choose between using an online wine merchant or a retail outlet wine merchant. Here we give you the lowdown on each type of wine merchant to help you decide which wine merchant you’ll go to for your next bottle of plonk.

Retail Outlet Wine Merchants
Whether you choose a national or regional chain, such as Majestic, Oddbins or Unwins, or a small independent shop, using a wine merchant’s shop for your supply of wine will open your eyes to a whole new world.

The bigger chains have plenty buying power in the UK wine industry, which means they can find, buy and then sell interesting and rare wines often at very reasonable prices. Offering a lot more than your usual supermarket these wine merchants also offer all kinds of extras, such as wine tasting and specialist advice to help you choose a wine to go with the food you are cooking.

You can rest assured that all the wines on sale in a specialist wine shop will have been tried and tested by the wine merchant, so you can be sure the wine will be good quality stuff. And if you take the time to get to know your wine merchant and allow them to get to know you, they may spot new wines that they think you’d like and hold it back from the shelves to give you the first chance of buying it.

In addition, many merchants make en primeur offers, which are opportunities to buy wine whilst it is still in barrel at the vineyard before it hits the market and the prices rise. If you’re buying wine in this way then you’re clearly a wine fan but it is the best way to ensure your allocation of certain highly sought after wines.

Mail Order/Internet Wine Merchants
If you would rather buy your wine from the comfort of your own home then why not consider using an Internet wine merchant or mail order wine merchant company. Although you may not get the chance to taste the wine in a shop before you buy, you will still be able to get expert advice about the different types of wine available, and you will have the added bonus of a regular newsletter that will keep you up-to-date with the latest developments in the wine world.

There are tens of thousands of different wines on sale in the UK, but obviously retail outlets can only sell a small selection of these, but if you buy over the Internet you will probably find you have a much wider choice of wines, while you can also put in special requests for rare or vintage wines that the online wine merchant can then seek out for you. Although you will probably have to pay for delivery, these charges are usually very reasonable these days.