🍇 Galicia’s Other Grapes Deserve Your Attention
Beyond Albariño, this rugged region quietly produces some of Spain’s most intriguing varietal wines.
🍑 Godello 'Mara Martín'
If you haven’t explored Godello, start here. Delicate peach, greengage, and pink grapefruit with a beautifully judged citrus pith bitterness. Crisp, precise, and pure. A sommelier’s secret weapon.
🍒 Cuatro Pasos Black Mencía
Proof Mencía deserves more love. Deep cherry color, layers of blackberry, cassis, smoky spice, and a mineral thread. Polished tannins, generous fruit, and a balsamic lift on the finish. Old vines, modern elegance.
✨ Galicia’s Atlantic influence, bottled and brilliantly expressed.
🌊 A Taste of the Atlantic
If you know, you know: the Albariños from Rías Baixas deliver like no other. Martín Códax remains the benchmark for this windswept coastal region.
🍋 Albariño
Textbook expression. Bursting with green apple, lemon zest, and a whisper of fresh herbs. That slight petillance on the palate keeps it crisp and irresistibly lively. A flawless aperitif, or with pristine shellfish.
🍐 Lías Albariño
This is Albariño with layers. Lees ageing brings notes of ripe pear, white peach, and warm brioche, adding depth and texture without losing that Atlantic freshness. Silky, generous, and endlessly drinkable.
🔥 The most rated summer white — now £16.97 (save 32%) on multibuy!
Susana Balbo’s Signature White is the bottle wine critics can’t stop praising. Think lemongrass, melon, pink grapefruit, honeysuckle, and white peach, with serious texture and freshness.
Only £16.97 a bottle in our Summer Wine Offer (when you grab 12). Don’t miss it — offer ends June!
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08/06/2025
Discover Spain & Portugal — Up to 25% Off 🍷✨
This month, we’re touring the Iberian Peninsula and diving into two of the world’s most exciting wine regions. From ancient old vine sites to bold modern winemakers, Spain and Portugal deliver endless passion, innovation, and character in every bottle.
Our Top Picks This Week:
🌸 Rosé
Rosé Rioja, Sierra Cantabria
Raspberry and rose petal aromas with superb freshness and delicacy — yet bursting with personality. Juicy fruit, bright acidity, and a long, elegant finish.
🍷 Red
Garnacha Nativa, Care
Clean, powerful aromas of ripe red and black fruits, cacao, and coffee bean. Rich, spiced, and perfectly balanced with smooth tannins. Bold, elegant, and fruit-driven.
07/06/2025
A Father’s Day Gift with Real History
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Today’s recommendation is something truly special:
Great Wine Co. Anniversary Vintage Bas Armagnac
Aged for 40 years in the ancient cellars of Castarède —
Armagnac’s oldest producer — this fine 1983 vintage
was released to celebrate our 40th Anniversary. Expect
elegant notes of pâtisserie, dried apricot, and toasted
almond, with a silky, lingering finish.
A rare, thoughtful gift for a remarkable dad.
06/06/2025
Father’s Day Picks, Part Two 🍷✨
Today we’re spotlighting a remarkable wine for dads
who appreciate character and complexity:
🍐 Ossian Organic Verdejo
From vines nearly 200 years old, this is rich and lush,
bursting with juicy-ripe pear, a hint of green fennel, and
a whisper of fine oak. Think young white Burgundy
with a distinct Spanish twist — drink now or cellar for
years to come.
05/06/2025
We’ve handpicked a collection of exceptional spirits and fine wines for those who appreciate craftsmanship in every drop - and we’ll be sharing them with you this week.
First up: Bladnoch Distillery, the oldest privately owned distillery in Scotland. Select bottles are available now at special prices.
03/06/2025
We are delighted to announce that after an absence of more than two years, we can now offer limited stocks of Bogle Phantom Chardonnay.
This is our most-requested wine, and of an increasingly rare breed: lavishly rich, buttery, generously-fruited, creamy-textured California Chardonnay.
This stuff is like gold dust, so load up before it all goes!
Normally £25, get it for £18.85 per bottle, when you use code: PH-CH-23
15/05/2025
The Great Spring wine tasting was indeed great! A really lovely event with delicious wines, lovely people, an excellent venue and even some fine, May weather. For those who attended, thank you for coming. If you couldn't make it, here is a flavour of the day!
12/05/2025
Review any of our wines online for a chance to win £100 worth of wine.
Submit a wine review for any wine currently available on our website by 2nd June to be entered into a prize draw. Wine reviews submitted as part of the competition will be published on our website with your first name only.
For full competition T&Cs and to get started, see link in bio.
02/05/2025
Join us today and tomorrow (Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd May) for our free tasting, Grapes of The World. This will give you a chance to taste 10 wines which are typical to the regions where they are grown. An essential refresher on classic grape varieties, which is a must for beginners and aficionados alike. For more details, please click the link in our Bio.
To top off this great tasting, we also have 25% off all wines when you buy 12+ bottles making this the perfect excuse to stock up the wine rack!
17/04/2025
The Great Spring Wine Tasting - Join us on 8th May for a chance to taste 40 fantastic wines, specially selected for enjoyment over the spring and summer months. These will include exciting new discoveries, hidden gems, and of course, all-time favourites. See link in Bio for more info, and hint at the wines on taste, and to order tickets.
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Wine is all about people. We are a company run by wine people. Our mission is to introduce you to the people who craft this wonderful drink with care, attention and passion. By doing so, we want to foster connections, share enjoyment and encourage enthusiasm.
We bring you the full, kaleidoscopic picture of vineyards, places and people. In our seasonal world, we’ll bring you what’s good on the day, and point you to the right wines for the season’s flavours.
We know that great wine experiences are personal, so we’ll always put you, the wine drinker first. Allow us to listen and learn, and we’ll make sure that you get the right wine, for the right reason.
A little history
"Great Western Wine" was founded in 1983 by Philip Addis, primarily to sell wines to the local Bath on trade, before enquiries from his friends encouraged the opening of a shop selling the small wine producers imported, alongside increasingly bigger and more international wineries.
Following positive growth, both Fine Wine and Private Customer teams developed, consolidating a strong and loyal customer base across the South West and beyond. The sale of Great Western Wine in 2010 to Enotria Winecellars (later Enotria&Coe) saw Great Western Wine become a 100% business-to-consumer retailer.
In June 2020, we renamed ourselves The Great Wine Co. to reflect how we have grown beyond our traditional West Country base. Although Bath is our home, we sell more wine online than any other way, with customers up and down the UK.
This new name emphasises our greatest asset: the wineries that we represent all around the world. Our core brand values remain rooted in the quality of our portfolio of wines; in celebrating the personalities that sit behind them; and in reflecting everyone's individual tastes to recommend the right wine for each customer.
