{"title":"Home page","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003eAbout us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003eWe discovered wine when making a last grand tour of Europe before settling down to our careers. The old VW camper van inevitably kept breaking down and we found ourselves with time on our hands in the Loire, Bordeaux and, especially, the Rhône. There were only so many rivers to jump into to cool down in that hot summer so we started tasting wine - real wine, not the stuff we had been buying in the supermarkets. We returned to England knowing we would be starting a specialist wine import business importing from the Southern Rhône before expanding the list along with our interests to include a range of excellent mid-price Burgundy, Languedoc, Loire... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003eThe decision to focus on France initially came about for two main reasons:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eFrance still offers the highest quality and widest range of styles of wine of any wine-producing country;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eBy concentrating on a smaller geographical area it is possible to offer better value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince then, we have succumbed to the allure of Italy and have found some amazing wines from  Piedmont, Tuscany, Veneto\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand, more recently, Basilicata and Puglia in the far south, all superb wines at affordable prices. Great food wines too so, whatever you are eating, you will find something to match it here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome restrictions we place on ourselves: only buy wines direct from the producers and sell by the (mixed) case to offer the best prices throughout the UK for wines of this quality. Also, and perhaps most important, only buy wines we like to drink ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eWines are stored in a temperature-controlled bonded warehouse so they never suffer overheating and dried-out corks which can so easily spoil good wines bought from shops and supermarkets. As we don't have a shop, our overheads are low which in turn enables us to keep our prices as low as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eFurthermore, unlike many other internet wine merchants, The Big Red Wine Company will mix cases at no extra charge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1008\/6318\/1149\/collections\/logo.png?v=1763299087","url":"https:\/\/bigredwine.co.uk\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"The Big Red Wine Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}