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Business Profile

Today ... over 40 years on, we're now called Laithwaites Wine 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.

About Us

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.

Our Guarantee:
If you're not fully delighted with any wine, we'll come and collect it and give you your money back.

What I'm up to now ...

If you read my diary, you'll see that I now divide my time between my office in Henley-on-Thames and the noisy HQ in Theale, Reading. Theale has our tiny but award-winning vineyard. I also labour in the Chiltern Hills vineyard of my wife and her chum, Cherry and in my Côtes de Castillon vineyard in St Colombe, near Bordeaux.

My current obsession is our merchant-winery at Le Chai au Quai, on the Dordogne. I travel a bit less now I have keen, clever, energetic (younger) buyers. But I still travel the vineyards and will certainly do so as long as I can.