Quaff Fine Wine Merchant

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Quaff Fine Wine Merchant Our two shops offer an excellent range of fine wines, craft beers and tasting events. We don’t have a regional speciality. Come and try us out.

Quaff Fine Wine Merchant was founded in 2005 as the brainchild of Toby Peirce. Toby's early adulthood was spent playing professional cricket, and this took him to Stellenbosch in South Africa in the English winters. Here he played cricket, coached schoolchildren, met his wife, and drank an intemperate amount of wine with the sporting sons of local producers and growers. This inevitably led to a career in wine when cricket finished, and Toby worked for a UK-based agent for a leading Champagne house, selling to the likes of everyone from Gordon Ramsay to Tesco. Having gleaned enough from this experience to set out on his own, he opened the first Quaff in Portland Road, Hove in 2005. The second shop was opened in early 2010 in partnership with Ronnie Janssen who has been immersed in the wine trade since he turned 18, having worked for the likes of Moet et Chandon, Lanson, Penfolds, and Lapostolle where he currently works. Nowadays we supply our customers with wines, mostly from small producers, that they won’t find in other shops. We don’t try to be overtly organic or biodynamic, although we find that a lot of our wines by coincidence tend to be made with less intervention in the winemaking process, and are thus more ‘natural’. Our aim is that regardless of style, region, colour or price point, we are offering you the best product available. We taste hard and often to ensure this is so. Each wine should be an archetype of that style; typical of the region, the vintage and showing the passion of the producer. We offer what we consider to be benchmark examples so that you are safe in the knowledge that what you are drinking is as it should be. The vast majority of our work is done by listening carefully to you, the customer, and making a recommendation accordingly, and we take this skill as seriously as selecting the wines themselves.

03/10/2026

Come let James James and Miran feed and water you at our current pash of the week! Loving the easygoing vibe in here.

28/09/2026

As well as our in-house events and evenings we regularly go off-site to other venues to host, in this case at a lovely event for corporate clients held at Hotel du Vin last week. Whether it's at a venue such as this, or at your offices or even at your own home, we'll happily travel if you wish! **e **e **etasting🍷

23/09/2026

Join us this Friday and Saturday and for a last blast of heat and fizz (or whatever takes your fancy!) **e **e **e **ebar

21/09/2026

Day in the Life...Maxim, Toby and Natasha (thanks for pics!) hard at work in London while Matt swans about at home... **e **etasting **emerchant

Orange W**e Tasting: Discover the Amber Side of W**e, Quaff Hove, Thurs Sept 24th, 7.30pmJoin us for an evening explorin...
08/09/2026

Orange W**e Tasting: Discover the Amber Side of W**e, Quaff Hove, Thurs Sept 24th, 7.30pm

Join us for an evening exploring one of Brighton & Hove’s most exciting and increasingly celebrated w**e styles: Orange W**e.

Don’t know your Pet Nat from your qvevri? Want to know what exactly is orange w**e? Then this is the tasting for you!

Link in our bio to book!

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Our customers are wonderful here at Quaff and we get to know most of their dogs by name. Sometimes though, they do ask f...
05/09/2026

Our customers are wonderful here at Quaff and we get to know most of their dogs by name.

Sometimes though, they do ask for very specific w**e pairings.

What w**e matches with a Bonio?
What works best with dehydrated pigs ears?

Perhaps a glass of pawsecco or a pup-tini might suffice?

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04/09/2026

Address

139-141 Portland Road
Hove
BN35QJ

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 8pm
Tuesday 10am - 8pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

Telephone

+441273820320

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