Tanners Wines

Welcome...
To Tanners... the independent family wine merchants with the truly personal service. You can buy high quality, affordable wines onlline with free delivery on any order over £90 to the UK mainland less Highlands. There are plenty of new discoveries from, Italy, Bordeaux, Chile, Burgundy and Spain from growers who are passionate about their land and vines.

Tanners Today
Tanners employs about 50 people in Shrewsbury, 40 in Welshpool and a further 10 elsewhere. The company is family-owned, family-run and staunchly independent. Approximately 60% of the firm's sales are to quality-minded hotels and restaurants, public houses and clubs, not only locally but country wide. You will discover at Tanners an unceasing pursuit of quality both in the products you purchase and the level of service that we provide.

Our buying team is led by James Tanner, Managing Director, (aided by Stephen Crosland, Purchasing Manager) but draws on the experience of his father, Richard Tanner who has been bringing award winning wines into Britain for the past 30 years. Richard Tanner has been described in The Times as "one of the best wine buyers in Britain". Simon Jones, Adrian Patterson and Robert Boutflower complete the team.

To ensure quality and continuity it is essential to talk to a grower in his own cellars. Between us therefore we spend many weeks each year visiting producers as well as tasting the hundreds of samples received at Wyle Cop. There tends to be very little on the market that we have not tasted. The best wine producers have to be convinced that their wine will reach a market where it will be appreciated. Quantities available are often limited and in this respect a firm the size of Tanners has a distinct advantage over the big groups. Support for Tanners is such that 40-foot lorries regularly bring direct to our bonded warehouse at Welshpool wine collected from producers in all parts of France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Consolidated container loads arrive from Cadiz, Oporto, Cape Town, San Francisco, Valparaiso, Buenos Aires and Adelaide.

Tanners are part owners of the Merchant Vintners Company and its subsidiaries. This association of independent wine merchants was founded in 1965 to ensure that members could prosper, whilst preserving their individuality in the face of large groups. Today's combined annual turnover of some £120 million and combined membership of a larger group with £5 billion turnover, ensures that Tanners can, in addition to their own fine wines, offer national brands of wines and spirits as competitively as anyone.

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