Welcome
to The Oxford Wine Company website, first for online wine in Oxfordshire. You can now browse through our wine list from the comfort of your home and order securely online.
We offer free delivery to any customers within a 25 mile radius of our Standlake Warehouse in Oxfordshire. For customers outside this area, a single delivery charge (£9.99 inc VAT) will apply regardless of the amount ordered. As well as selling wine to our public and trade customers, we organise many wine tastings and other events. Check online for forthcoming events. Use the buttons above to navigate the site and please feel free to email us with any requests or wine related questions you may have.
The original Oxford Wine Company was founded in 1840 and traded from 125, High Street, Oxford until 1914. The name was revived in the early 1990s by Ted Sandbach, metamorphosing from "The Oxford Hamper Company" through "The Oxford Wine And Hamper Company" and finally "The Oxford Wine Company" in the Spring of 1992.
The company has a large warehouse which is open to the public for case or single bottle purchases. In addition the company operates a thriving wholesale business in the Thames Valley Corridor, although wine can be delivered throughout the UK.
The Oxford Wine Company is one of the largest independent wine retail and wholesale companies in the U.K. with a stunning range of wine from just over £3.00 to over £500 a bottle. Over 1500 wines and spirits are stocked and the company also specialises in vintage Armagnac, as well as listing in excess of 150 Malt Whiskys. The Warehouse, at Standlake near Witney, Oxfordshire, has extensive storage capacity and houses the company’s head office and distribution centre.
Uniquely, beneath the building, there are three "caves" which provide perfect conditions for the storage of wine. One of these has been converted into a tasting and function room, which allows the company to entertain in a more authentic fashion!
The Oxford Wine Company holds tastings and dinners and organise Call My Wine Bluff evenings.
The company sources the majority of its wines direct, thus cutting out the middlemen, often dealing with small, quality suppliers whose products will not be found on the "High Street". The list is truly cosmopolitan and incorporates all the major wine producing countries of the World.
The Oxford Wine Company has opened a new shop in Oxford
The Oxford Wine Company has opened a new retail outlet. We have found an excellent site in Oxford right on the Botley Road between PC World and Currys in a unit that was formerly occupied by Faulkners Motorcycle and Scooters.
The shop has a tasting bar for you to try before you buy and regular promotions and customer tastings will take place on the premises. Our full and extensive range of wines and spirits are stocked and the shop also features a Fine Wine selection where you can peruse classic wines from around the world.
The Oxford Wine Company
167 Botley Road
Oxford OX2 0PB
01865 249500
Open: Monday to Saturday 10am-8pm
Sunday 10am-5pm
Finding the right site in Oxford has taken awhile, but being right on the Botley Road and in the middle of a large retail park with ample parking of our own, we feel that have at last found the perfect location to make The Oxford Wine Company the Independent Wine Merchant within easy reach of central Oxford. Sam Hellyer (who was formerly the manager of Oddbins High Street) is running the shop with the help of two other members of staff.
We have plans to open other shops as part of our further expansion in Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas - watch this space!
Tasting Events
To keep up to date with our tastings and wine events click below. We run two large Wine Fairs per year in Oxford and Witney where you can taste up to 100 wines arranged on 15 tables – these are the biggest wine events in the area and very popular.
We present regular informal tastings in our customized Tasting Tunnel below stairs in our wine cellar which feature winemakers, wine journalists and Masters of Wine.
We also run The Oxford Times Wine Club in collaboration with wine journalist Sarah McCleery and The Oxford Times. As well as special offers appearing weekly in The Times we feature themed Dinner Tastings at the exclusive Corner Club in Turl Street in the heart of Oxford which are hosted by winemakers and producers.
To receive up to date information on all our wine tasting events, just click here and send your name and address.
News
Stop Press
We have just heard that we have been shortlisted for The International Wine Challenge Wine Merchant of the Year Award for 2010. Out of a total of 300 submissions the judges have picked just 30 top Wine Merchants as possible candidates for this very prestigious title and we are delighted that they have included us one of them. The final results will be announced at the IWC Awards ceremony in London in September.
We have just been notified that Oz Clarke has included another five of our wines in his Top 250 Wine Buying Guide for 2011, due to be published in October this year. Watch this space for details!
The Oxford Wine Company is Expanding
As part of our expansion following on from having taken over Gloucester based wine merchant Bona Wines in November, we have appointed various new members of staff. Jackie Wheels (ex MD of Bona Wines) has settled in nicely and is busy selling to both trade and retail customers in the Gloucester area. Ex company director Iain Thurgar has joined us here to look after the retail side of our business in our Standlake head office – he brings with him a wealth of experience and a serious passion for wine and customer service. We have appointed two assistant managers to help manager Sam Hellyer run our new shop in the Botley Road in Oxford - Lee Issacs (full time) and Lucie Robertson (part time) and have taken on another delivery vehicle and driver. We have also expanded our warehouse space at Standlake to include a large double storage unit to help us cope with the ever growing extra stock that we are now handling daily.
Oxford Artwine Number 2
We have produced a second specially blended wine for the Annual Oxford Artweeks Design a Wine Label Competition which was won by Lucien O’Harian, aged 13! The panel of judges from various artworld establishments sorted through nearly 50 entries to finally agree that his image was the winner. The wine’s pretty good too – we produce it from our vineyards in the Languedoc which also produce the Award winning Domaine de la Souterranne range that Oz Clarke has included in his Top 250 Best Wine Guides for two year’s running! The Oxford Artwine Number 2 2008 is on sale at our Standlake Head Office and also at the Oxford shop selling for £12.95.
Vineyard Visits
Visits to producers abroad has continued apace this year with Jackie jetting off to Bordeaux, Heather visiting the Douro Valley in Portugal, Ted and John off to Jerez and Southern France and Theo being flown out to Virginia as a guest of the US government to check out the newly established producers there who are fast making their mark with Bordeaux styles – and all this in the first 6 months of the year! We expect to return full of ideas for new wines for the shelves.
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We have a new online shop!
1500+ Wines, Spirits and other pleasant beverages, interesting Special Offers and Theo’s recommended wines – all offered with free delivery within a 30 mile radius of Standlake.
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Special Offers
ADI BADENHORST MIXED CASE OFFER FOR SPRING/SUMMER
Special Discounted Case Price - £165.00
12 bottle case - contains 3 bottles of each wine.
These are some of the very best and characterful wines we have ever tasted. Adi Badenhorst, surfer, parrot breeder, woeful Elvis impersonator and multi award winning winemaker at Rustenberg for nearly a decade, has flown the nest and is going it alone (almost). He has co-founded AA Badenhorst Family Wines with his cousin, Hein, and father, Andre, on a small piece of earth in the Paardeberg, Swartland in South Africa. Here he hand crafts amazing wines made from near organic grapes grown on ancient bush vines and fermented using very basic equipment - and the result is astonishing. These are very serious wines that you won't see at the local supermarket!
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OZ CLARKE 250 BEST WINES 2010 12 BOTTLE MIXED CASE OFFER FOR SPRING/SUMMER
Special Discounted Case Price - £83.00
3 bottles of each
Each year, Oz Clarke, Britain's favourite wine writer and personality chooses his Top 250 Best Wines in his Wine Buying Guide. In 2009 Oz choose four of our wines. This year he has chosen the new vintages from our own Domaine de la Souterranne (which he also featured last year) as well as two of our best selling Chilean wines.
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THE OXFORD WINE COMPANY 12 BOTTLE MIXED CASE OFFER FOR SPRING/SUMMER
Special Discounted Case Price £59.00
1 bottle of each
The Oxford Wine Company’s mixed case is a collection of our best everyday drinking wines and offers great value for money for any occasion – it also makes a great gift at any time of year.
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AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL HEROES MIXED CASE
Special Discounted Case Price £128.00
A special 15% discounted Mixed Case Offer on our top Australian Regional Heroes - contains two bottles of each wine.
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Talking Wine with Ted Sandbach-August
Our new shop in the Botley Road is open and judging by the first few days trading is going to be a huge success. All stock currently in our main warehouse in Standlake (with the exception of vintage Armagnac) is on display and we have added a further range of Claret. The shop is managed by ex Oddbins High Street manager Sam Hellyer whose experience will be invaluable. The rest of the team are being put together and the shop is open 7 days a week from 10.00am - 8.00pm. There is no minimum purchase and as well as wine we have a fabulous range of spirits. We can now concentrate on opening in Tetbury in late August.
The emergency budget was kind to the wine trade. It’s not often I can be so generous to politicians as readers of this column will be well aware, but the delay in VAT is especially helpful and the fact that the government recognised the fact that their predecessors had put duty up three time in a calendar year was also a bonus.
Oxford Wine Direct
Monthly regular delivery service
Many
of our customers have requested a regular monthly delivery which may vary
in value and amount. Some wish to be specific in their choice whilst others
are happy to leave the selection to us.
All customers who sign up for this service will receive a 10% discount (normally 5%). Payment will be by credit card, details of which will be held securely at The Oxford Wine Company. Alternatively you may wish to instruct us to ring you for payment details.
You can ring or email us at any time to change your selection or cancel your order.
To sign up please contact Gautam gautam@oxfordwine.co.uk or ring him on 01865 301144.
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