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Magnificent magnums – the ideal centrepiece for your Christmas Table Angela Mount It’s Christmas time, and it’s the season to celebrate, indulge, and gather friends and family around the table – and t...

The Ultimate Christmas Party is a hard occasion to get right. Food, decoration, music and of course drinks! Bubbles are a necessity at any celebration, but an easy drinking red and refreshing white ar...

Staff, players and Season ticket holders from Bath Rugby were out in force in our shop last week, to select their top tipples for the Christmas season from the Great Western Wine range.  As a local b...

Plan Early for Christmas! Angela Mount It’s a known fact that 85% of wine bought for Christmas is left until the week before the Big Day. And with a million and one things to organize, it’s very easy...

Quinta Do Crasto, Douro Red 2011 £11.50 reduced to... £10.12 During this busy Christmas period, I'm cheating again, borrowing a recommendation. Having re-visited Portuguese red's, I thoroughly agree w...

There was a full house at the Great Western Wine annual Portfolio Tasting last week. 450 tickets sold out a week beforehand, and eager tasters packed into Bath’s Assembly Rooms to taste some of the be...

The Michelin Star Banquet At Bath Abbey marked the start of The Great Bath Feast - it was a brilliant event. 100+ of the great and good of Bath eating and drinking Bath’s finest fare from three Michel...

For a printer friendly version click here An autumnal master piece in both flavour and aroma. A comforting dish to serve on a Friday night in or at dinner party. You could include more vegetables, co...

Our very own Jo Thomas traveled down to Sussex to take the Ridgeview tour and find out more about the award winning English sparkling wine. See her day in pictures below and find out how to visit Ridg...

Legendary Wine Maker Ken Forrester drops into see us this week to tell us about his wines. His entire range is great - please click here to see all the wines [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH...

A great night was had by all last Thursday when we hosted our annual event in aid of Dorothy House. This year the event was held in the beautiful cafe of the Holburne Museum. 110 people turned up to t...

Ian D'Agata, writing in the latest issue of Decanter Magazine, included two of our Proseccos in his top 20, both from the Ruggeri family:  declared to be "hands down, one of the top five Prosecco pro...