Not only are the supermarkets running out of bread, bananas and bog roll, the wine is taking a pounding too. And if you want anything delivered, well, good luck with that. Early May is probably the soonest you’ll get a slot.
Let us wine lovers thank heavens, then, that the independents are showing true Blitz spirit and are delivering across the UK every day during these strange times.
Tom Ashworth of Yapp Bros tells me that they’re up 200 per cent on this week last year and are busier in the warehouse than they were at Christmas. Tom Cave of Berry Bros & Rudd reports a brisk trade in consumers withdrawing fine wines from their private reserves whilst David Roberts MW of Goedhuis & Co says that their regulars are trading resolutely up and going for quality over quantity.
I strongly advise you do the same. Buying from independent merchants gives you access to wines that you simply can’t find anywhere else.
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