Friends and family are at the heart of any Christmas celebration, and the same is true for this handpicked list of Laithwaites wines for the festive season - including a sneak peak at the wine we're most excited about!

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Pick up the gift of great wine with your weekly shop! Laithwaites is delighted to announce the launch of its brand-new gift cards, now available for purchase across more than 2,000 Sainsbury’s and TG Jones stores.

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Tony provides a detailed look at the successful 2025 wine harvest... while also being personally assigned to crate-washing duty!

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Leading online retailer and family wine merchant, Laithwaites, has announced a new partnership with Deliveroo – bringing a carefully curated selection of their wines to customers on-demand.

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Bone Dry in name, bone dry in nature, this Riesling from Germany’s Von Buhl is full of delicious laser-like stone fruit and saline freshness with a Halloween-suited label that makes it perfect for, dare we say, October drinking.

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As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, we have a selection of wines which are layered, warming and full of character - and, sadly in these times, from growers who need Team Laithwaites more than ever.

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Not every red wine justifies a journey into  the depths of the Earth. This one does. Introducing Chasm de Cabrespine, a NEW Minervois 2019 aged in a river 200m below ground – a UK first for wine – that’s arriving at Laithwaites July 2025.

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We’re thrilled to have been named Online Retailer of the Year at the Drinks Business Awards 2025, announced last week at the London Wine Fair. Thank you for being a part of our big win!

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Explore how Windsor Great Park is tackling sustainability in winemaker – and join us at the Royal Windsor Flower Show to taste the wines and meet the team.

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Laithwaites, the UK’s leading online wine merchant, is thrilled to announce the launch of Judas Priest Douro Reserva – available online now.

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The Laithwaites team has a handpicked selection of wines to capture the vinous spirit of the season: from one of the greenest whites you’ll find, via a Valencian Viognier and South African Sauvignon-Colombard, rosés from the South of both America and France, plus a pair of jubilantly juicy reds.

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We're giving away three very special bottles of gin from our friends at Cambridge Distillery.

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I really enjoy our Pontfract rosés. It’s not only because the vines are old, but because the man who owns the estate is positively ancient.

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Our plain-spoken, direct approach to wine had attracted nice, normal people eager to try bottles from all over the world... so, we arranged for grower-winemakers and customers to meet.

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I’ve just opened a very nice bottle, so I’ll start with that and we’ll see where it takes us. It’s called Charles Cros 2023 Syrah, a luscious red from the Languedoc.

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For International Women’s Day, I was asked to write about an Outstanding Woman in Wine. I didn’t have to look very far for a prime subject.

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Vineyard work during winter is more vital that at any other season; with a whole range of tasks essential for maintaining the health of the vines.

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Laithwaites is a family-owned wine company that was founded in 1969 by yours truly. Barbara joined me a year later and the company started growing. But… change is inevitable.

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2023 began at the French Ambassador’s place (name drop) for the awarding of the new Chevaliers de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole…we really should have something like this to big up the UK’s good farmers.

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The shiny beacons of light in French retail seem to be the classier wines from Languedoc and Roussillon, commonly called Le Midi.

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Pillastro enthusiasts are likely to be familiar with Angelo Maci. He’s the celebrated winemaker from Puglia’s Salento, known for saving 1,000 local vineyards from disaster.

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We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been awarded ‘Green Champion of the Year’ at the 2023 Decanter Retailer Awards.

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Laithwaites is the new Official Wine Partner of England Cricket. And what a time to begin this two-year partnership, ahead of the Men’s and Women’s Ashes.

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When Barbara Laithwaite first heard that her prized bubbly had been named the UK’s finest fizz in 2013, she was as surprised as she was delighted.

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Without a stable climate there can be no great wines. Worse still, it puts the wineries and the communities that depend on them in jeopardy.

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Fancy a sherry? It's just one of the wines making a retro revival, alongside a few other unexpected styles. 

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Jane and the team are like family, and many of you will know the great wines of this terrific Kiwi estate - their Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc in particular.

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Languedoc legend Gérard Bertrand has made us this anniversary bottling – a reproduction of the original cuvée I bought from his father Georges. 

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Meet Duncan Savage – one of the hottest young winemakers of the Cape, and the guy behind the vibrant Hommage à B Syrah.

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We first met Alessandro Gallici – ‘Galli’ to his friends – in 2002, when he was winemaker at a big winery in Friuli, north-east of Venice.

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