If you drink wine and are not a member of this society, you re making a mistake
Its bottles are exceptionally good value and its website has embraced the 21st century at last. A share in it is the hottest ticket in town
16 July 2021 • 5:00am
The Wine Society has decided to invest £20 million into a four-year programme involving IT and green energy
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Over 176,500 wine drinkers in this country (and counting) do at least part of their shopping at The Wine Society. Unglamorously headquartered in Stevenage (you can see its big warehouses on the left from the windows of trains heading north on the East Coast line), the 147-year-old mutual is an institution: a trusted place from which to buy wines, from a cheap sauvignon-viognier from southern France (at £6.75, Duo des Mers is one of its top three white bestsellers) to en primeur claret.
Decanter Wine ‘Mozart’ Laurent Vaillé of Grange des Pères dies
Tributes have been paid to Laurent Vaillé, founder of the highly regarded Grange des Pères winery in Languedoc, who has died.
Tributes were paid across Languedoc and beyond this week following news of the death of Laurent Vaillé, founder of the celebrated
Domaine de la Grange des Pèresnear to Aniane in a picturesque corner of southern France to the north-west of Montpellier.
‘He was the Mozart of wine,’ said Aniane’s mayor, Philippe Salasc, to
Twitter that Vaillé was one of Languedoc’s stars.
Another of the region’s top wineries, Domaine Virgile Joly, described Vaillé as ‘one of the most remarkable French wine producers’.