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We are delighted to list below links to some of our
customer, contacts and friends in the trade.
If you would like us to add a link to your website please do give us a call on
01480 896416 / 01480 896663.
OUR OVERSEAS DISTRIBUTORS
SOUTH AFRICA
Sterling
Promotions
One of the leading distributors of
wine accessories in South Africa.
INDEPENDENT WINE INFORMATION SITES
www.wine-pages.com
The world's
longest-established wine site with almost encyclopedic content yet easy to
find your way around. For example, there's over 15,000 tasting notes
available. Updated
daily by well-known wine journalist Tom Cannavan with useful information on
public tastings,
courses, vintages and a host of other wine-related topics.
Posted 4 July 2003
VINTAGE WINE GIFTS
www.vwinegifts.co.uk
Vintage wine gifts offer an
outstanding collection of fine wines in addition to wines for everyday
drinking. A comprehensive range of prestigious gifts can be tailored to
suit all occasions
and pockets. The Connoisseur gift package consists of a fine wine from the
recipient's year
of birth accompanied by a vintage summary, a copy of The Times from the birth
date, packaged
in a silk lined gift box with a hand engraved plaque and message. Also
personalised labels,
wine sourcing, food and wine pairing, wedding list service, corporate gifts and
cellar management
and evaluation. Contact Sara Hurn.
Posted 17 February 2004
EVENT ORGANISATION & TRAINING
www.home-wine-course.com
Home Wine Course from Taste of the Vine.
The Taste Trainer™ is the fun, easy way to learn to taste wine like a
professional in
the comfort of your home. The highly, interactive, computer animated, wine
tasting
course with its unique tools will begin to develop your palate within
minutes.
The Taste Trainer™ program is part one of the Home Wine Course from taste of
the Vine.
Posted 7 February 2005
www.vintellect.co.uk
ON-TRADE CONSULTING AND TRAINING - specialising in maximising wine sales
and profitability in the on-trade through advice and training.
EVENT ORGANISATION - providing innovative corporate and private
entertainment in the form of personalised and tailor-made wine courses,
vineyard tours and wine challenge events.
Posted 7 September 2004
www.tesevents.co.uk
Specialising in Wine Tasting Events, TES Events
offer a range of services from
Conferences to Parties to Weddings. They
will surpass your expectations NOT your budget.
By providing a personal
and flexible service that’s affordable, each event package is tailor made to
suit your needs and budget.
Posted 5 February 2004
WINE CLUBS/ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES
www.oxfordwinesociety.org
User-friendly and comprehensive
site for both members and non-members. Open to
university-associated folks as well as taking on a few non-university
memberships each year.
Posted 16 July 2003.
www.cecwine.co.uk
Wine tasting club offering some
amazing tastings in London - just take look at their next
Imperiale tasting.
Posted 4 July 2003.
RESTAURANTS, HOTELS, PUBS & WINE BARS
ILMINGTON, nr SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR
The Howard Arms
New customers of ours and Warwickshire's Dining Pub of the Year in both 2001
and 2003.
Peaceful, friendly and obviously rightly proud of the care they take in their
food, beers,
wines, rooms, customer care and....naturally, choice of corkscrews!
Posted 9 July 2004
LONDON
Discontinued link
Hartfields Wine Bar in Wimbledon has now been sold.
Charlotte Dean is working for
Chateau Musar in the UK and Chris is looking after the kids for a while!
They did a
fantastic job with Hartfields in the ten years since it was created and we wish
them
and their girls well for the future.
Posted 7 September 2004
WINE MERCHANTS
www.winetreasury.com
Old friends and customers of ours.
Specialists in Californian wines.
Posted June 2003.
www.jascots.co.uk
Fine wine merchant customer of our selling serious
wines.
Posted June 2003.
www.classicrarewines.com
Classic and Rare Wines Ltd. is a subsidiary of Stanley Ball Ltd., fine wine
merchants
for over one hundred years. They offer over 2000 of the world's finest
wines,
competitively priced and perfectly cellared.
Posted June 2003.
TRADE EXHIBITIONS
We will be at the following
Restaurant Show, London, 20-22 September 2004, stand N182
- call for free tickets
ScotHot, Glasgow, April 2005
London Wine & Spirit International Fair, London, May 2005
FOOD AND WINE FESTIVALS
EMSWORTH
2004 details to be posted when known
www.emsworthfoodfestival.org.uk
2003 is the third year that the Emsworth Food
Festival has been staged. Since the first event in 2001 the
Festival has grown in both size and the number of visitors to this wonderful
village; around 20,000 people
enjoyed the non-stop entertainment and fantastic food at last year’s
Festival. We printed the ISO tasting
glasses which acted as the 'ticket entry' to the Wine Village. Held 19-21
September 2003.
Posted June 2003.
PUBLICATIONS
www.thedatebook.co.uk
An absolutely, marvellous quarterly journal listing charitable
and other significant events in the social
calendar. But there's so much more as well - event and restaurant reviews,
industry viewpoints, articles
from leading figures in the event industry and even the odd roving brief article
from our own Tony Burrin.
Published by Mary Kay and Tom Eyerman who also founded and run the Association
of Event Managers.
A highly respected journal supported by key figures and leading hotels in
London.
Posted 24 June 2003.
FRIENDLY SUPPLIERS
RELIABLE UK & EUROPEAN FREIGHT COMPANY
www.qed-fr8.co.uk
We can heartily recommend QEDFR8 for both domestic and
European freight.
Reliable, friendly and always willing to go that little bit further (on the road
and in their service!),
they're good to have on your side. Run by the unflapable Chris
Quinn.
Posted 16 June 2004
ROOM SERVICE/BUTLER TRAYS & LUGGAGE
RACKS
www.orielonline.com
Oriel combine craftsmanship
with the natural beauty of wood to produce these marvellous trays.
Designed and built to be light in weight and able withstand daily use in a busy
commercial environment.
Posted 7 May 2004
STATIONERY
www.britim.biz
We've been absolutely delighted with
Peterborough-based Britim since we started using them after we
moved into our Ellington premises in April 2002. Great service, fair
prices and nothing too much trouble.
As well as office stationery they also supply and install office
furniture.
Posted June 2003.
PRINTED LABELS
www.printandlabel.com
These St Ives, Huntingdonshire-based folks overprint
the header cards that we use in the Ellen Collection
retail packaging. They also do loads of labels in all sorts of
types. Very user-friendly and on the ball.
Posted June 2003.
OPTICS ETC.
www.aubic.co.uk
Whereas we purely specialise in
manufacturing and distributing wine accessories these folks manufacture
and distribute all kinds of bar/drinks accessories including optics, cocktail
shakers, measures and such like.
Friendly company with online service for retail, trade and wholesale
sectors.
Posted June 2003.
