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Small wine importer based in SE London. Supposed to be specialising in the Loire. However, also: Rho

07/08/2026

We’ve just received a very welcome delivery of wines from Xavi & Andreu Padró - the brothers behind LaRuRaL - producing delicious, invigorating macerations from their indigenous Catalunyan varieties.

The wines are from the the 2023 and 2024 vintages, the last two vintage of consecutive drought in Catalunya after the rain returned in 2025. From 2023 we have new editions of their light, detailed reds, and from 2024 we have the return of their macerated white-varieties - with great acidity and aromatics, very soft and supple now that they’re just free-run juice!

Alongside these, we’re excited to have a new Litre-bottle cuvée from 2024: YELLOW - a 5-day maceration of Macabeu, Moscatell and Xarel•lo, raised in fibreglass, it’s a juicy, fun and super drinkable summer quencher, and their delicious macerated Moscatel from the nourished, bountiful 2025 available in keg!

Full details are up on the blog now

05/08/2026

A fresh shipment from Brand Bros Official has arrived, spanning the broadest handful of new vintages we have received from them in quite a while. It’s lovely to have a very full collection together!

Mainly from the 2024 vintage - a return to ‘normal’ following a trickier 2023. Good rainfall replenished the vines, with a warm, sunny growing season producing some lighter and more playful wines. The 2024’s have the limestone signature of their vineyards, but boast more floral aromatics and bright fruit than the taut, mineral profile of 2023.

The wines are detailed on the blog with some insights from Jonas along the way. Among the 2024 highlights are their juicy new Rosé Pet Nat, a very pure Riesling and a playful Pinot Noir. Alongside these we also have a top-up of their new Orange Pur and the brighter 2024 Wilder Satz, and their very special NV vintage Riesling blend in Magnum!

10 years of their sustained commitment in the vines is really shining through in these wines, actively developing healthier soils through organic & regenerative agriculture, it’s a joy to see their progress reflected in the result.

Scroll through to enjoy Jonas doing some demonstrative posing for us in the historic Holy Chapel & Monastery vineyards a while back!

04/08/2026

A couple of weeks ago we nipped down to Kent to visit sophieevanss and load the van up with a little more of her Electric Field, and to collect a new wine from the 2024 vintage: the wonderfully pure expression of that year’s Pinot Gris.

From a cool, wet year, the Pinot Gris is picked from the small patch of the vines at Sophie’s home site where a seam of chalk is running beneath the clay.

Picked (in the rain) in mid-October, Pinot Gris was hand de-stemmed and foot crushed, with gentle punch downs for five days as it macerated. Fruit was basket pressed to a combination of stainless steel and glass demijohns before assembling the two a year later and bottling via gravity.

The resulting wine is truly beautiful, boasting quite fleshy fruit for such a cool year and just the slightest grip - white peach and a long saline minerality. Super elegant, a very special wine from a tricky year.

Postcards from our visit to collect wine and taste wines quietly finishing in tank.

21/07/2026

Fresh from Faye d’Anjou, we’re delighted to welcome the latest wines from Idles megafan Philippe Delmée. This release spans two very different vintages: the cool, wet 2024, yielding wines of real freshness and tension - and the sunnier 2025, bringing a little more generosity and depth.

From ‘24 we have his electric LA CANE - from a parcel of Pineau d’Aunis & Grolleau(s) with a splash of Chenin, the kind of lighter Loire red we adore. A fresh, crunchy 100% Cab Franc in the guise of LA LUNE, and his oldest Chenin, LES CH’NINS ON BOIT... picked from a parcel that yields very profound wines in these cooler years - very small quantities to go round of this one. From ‘25 we have the new PABLO EST AU BAR from Phil’s younger Chenin parcel, clay heavy, a deeper expression. And LAPINOU returns, this year as 100% Grolleau, dark fruited with a nice bit of structure, an excellent expression of the variety.

More information on all the wines is now up on our blog: link in bio.

16/07/2026

On Monday morning last week as we packed down Bedrock Wine Fair , we were very excited to load up the van with two new wines (in re-used cardboard) from Lucie & Jules Ham Street Wines to take back to the arch with us, both from the 2024 vintage: their new Col Fondo Meunier and barrel-aged Bacchus.

Alongside these we are very glad to release a highly limited amount of magnums of their two 2025 Pet Nats!

With 2024 being a very cold, rainy vintage across the UK, its no simple task that Lucie & Jules have produced two wines of such depth and character, these releases are a pair of unique, dynamic wines that went down a storm during Bedrock. We are very pleased to make them available now, info up on the blog, link in bio.

13/07/2026

Please join us in two weeks for our next collaborative trade tasting, split again between two Soho venues: & antidote_winebar

On Monday, July 27 - Otros Vinos will be joined by Dido of Vinyes Tortuga with a whole brace of wines, alongside .london , ʀᴏʟᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪɴᴇs and Under the Bonnet Wines . Pouring from 10am - 4pm.

Drop any of us a DM to RSVP - see you there!

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10/07/2026

We had such a phenomenal Sunday for this year’s Bedrock in the beautiful vines of Lucie & Jules at Ham Street!

This fair is totally inspired by & indebted to the casual, collaborative portes ouvertes style salons on the continent, and it really felt like that spirit has truly started to blossom in the UK. It was a special day of celebration that took the efforts of so many individuals offering their time and enthusiasm - including the guests who travelled to taste and chat with genuine curiosity.

There are too many of you to thank exhaustively - but we hope everyone who pitched in or brought good energy knows who they are and how grateful we are.

Of course, the fair would be nothing without the growers who work tirelessly each year to farm with the utmost respect for the land and produce thrilling, invigorating wines for us to enjoy together. Thank you.

Bedrock 2026 was:

Coes Farm

Ham Street Wines
Leisure
Matt Gregory Wines

northern wine

sophieevanss
Titch Hill Wines
Lunch by Drew Snaith
Dinner by Jake & Tom
Records by our , and the amazing Lucia & Lorenzo of
Endless help from the brilliant Bambi crew (Elitsa, Ella & Francesco) with the wonderful Richard & Ella

16/06/2026

It’s a thrill to have a new wine from sophieevanss - the 2024 edition of her Electric Field - only the second time she has released this special field blend since her first vintage.

A co-ferment of all the varieties growing at Sophie’s home site, grown organically over clay with a little chalk seam, at the edge of the Romney Marshes. A celebratory wine from a very tricky year in the vines, Sophie was proud to have any fruit at all from 2024, let alone a wine of such character and life.

As most of us who were here at the time well remember, 2024 was a very cold, rainy vintage across the UK, Sophie was out on her mini tractor every five days spraying , often needing to spray in the rain, and even harvesting in the rain. Picked in early October, Electric Field is a true reflection of the year, its delicate fruit has a fluidity, given pretty aromatics and some nice complexity after some time on skins.

With just 380 bottles produced, we’re very glad it exists!

Sunny photos of the home site itself on a rare dry spring day in April 2024 before 6 solid months of rain, on an electric field trip - if you will - to learn about soil health with Sophie & mutual pal Michael Völker.

15/06/2026

A beautiful day of tasting with Otros Vinos & toni carbó, ʀᴏʟᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪɴᴇs , The Grapes of Raph , Sén at 𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔’𝗦 and - thanks everyone who came across to taste.

22/05/2026

Save the date! We are thrilled to announce that Bedrock, our collaborative one-day wine fair - is back this summer! The 2026 fringe edition will be held in the vineyards of Kent as in 2023, and will feature a collection of the most innovative and committed growers and winemakers working in the UK today alongside guests from further afield.

On Sunday July 5 from 12pm - 5pm - join us for a fun, informal wine fair that allows both the trade and the public to meet and taste with wonderful growers. There will be good food, a very well-stocked bar, and music. There has also been a soft-promise of face painting for kids. Everyone is welcome, the full line-up of growers will be announced soon and tickets are available now at just £15 - link in bio!

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