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We
value:
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Ethical,
quality focussed producers.
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Trading
fairly.
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Environmental
responsibility.
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Fun
and a sense of adventure (when buying wine).
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Accountability
for the quality and value of every bottle that we sell.
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Education
and interaction with all customers via the shop or the web.
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Openness,
self-improvement & always welcome feedback.
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Charitable
Donations
We
believe that drinking wine is about pleasure and should be fun
whether you’re buying party wine sub £5 or you’re a canny
claret collector.
Our
shop is … small; compact and bijou. This helps us to focus on our
main objective to only list the best. There is simply no room for
shelf fillers. The main shop floor (arranged by style) covers the
price range up to £25 and for those who love it and have a
wallet to match their vinous passion, step upstairs into the
Aladdin’s
cave that is a roll call of many of the best producers from around
the world.
We
promote wines we love with a passion every day. We have never and
will never (strong words we know) sell wines on price promotion. We
don’t sell baked beans either
We
host a range of innovative wine tastings with the emphasis being on
sophisticated fun; our Fizz and Chips nights at the Allan Water Café
are the stuff of legend – featuring Krug and Winston Churchill
served up with the best fish and chips in Scotland … For 2009
Champagne Taittinger
is
currently in Pol position!
We
are environmentally responsible; we don’t do plastic bags, we
switched our freight from Italy to rail, 90% of our paper is recycled
(that includes toilet roll), we recycle all our glass bottles, the
local nursery makes great use of our corks and large cardboard boxes,
we re-use the popcorn packaging and we don’t print our list as the
vast majority of our customers have an email address.
Our
staff are hugely passionate about food and wine and we eat and drink
together at least once a month where we make a point of opening a
bottle of something that gets us all excited. At these dinners we
discuss the previous month’s successes, mystery customer feedback
and service competencies to focus on for the following month.
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