We now ship almost all of our wines directly from the producers, which gives us exclusive access to fantastic wines and allows us to further strengthen our price competitiveness As our business has grown we have been able to access more and more of the hard to come by wines from producers that are too small to be of interest to the large retail groups and we have been able to reward our regular and loyal customers with allocations of these When we first started, we believed that there was a real need for a good, down to earth, friendly and helpful specialist wine shop offering a range of interesting wines mostly from small producers