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SCOTTISH WINE MERCHANT OF THE YEAR 2008/2009 International Wine & Spirit Competition, London iwsc
Our Online Catalogue
(to browse & buy wines ONLINE via secure site),
OR download our June list (3mb pdf file)
Site updated on 1st July.
Grog Wine WAREHOUSE,
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Internet/Mailorder, case/mixed case only
161 Bonnington Rd, Edinburgh, EH6 5BQ, Scotland.
(next to "Cloth Shop" & "Johnstone Paints")
tel 0131 555 0222 fax 0131 555 3400.
Open 9am-6pm Mon-Sat.(Now open 'til 7pm Fridays) PLEASE DROP IN. You are very welcome to come into the warehouse to browse or buy.
Tastings
Click to see what Wine events, fairs, dinners & tastings are coming up.
FREE Jazz
Graeme Stephen Jazz Trio will be playing in the Grog Wine Bar, 7pm every Wednesday
Graeme was born in Aberdeen. Now residing in Edinburgh, he performs with numerous projects playing a wide array of styles from free Improvisation
to folk music. Having recorded with various groups Graeme released his first CD with his trio in 2006.
This recording was funded with a grant from the Scottish Arts Council and features New York based musician Eivind Opsvik on bass and London based drummer
Stuart Ritchie.
Grog Wine Bar
43 Rose Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Bar Hours Open 7 Days 9am-11pm. 0131 225 1616
"the wine list is a bargain with 21 by the glass and 40 by the bottle, the best from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa."
Rose Murray-Brown MW, The Scotsman, Aug 2008
Grog Retail Shop
'Scotland Specialist Off-Licence of the Year',
Local Retailer Awards 2007.
2 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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(Homebase is opposite us & has a car park, don't quote me though)
TEL 0131 667 2855.
Pick up SINGLE BOTTLES of wine (same price as the warehouse) Open
7 days a week
Wholesale & Corporate Accounts & Weddings
We supply to many Restaurants & Offices, can we help? We also specialise in big functions & weddings.
GROG WHO?? The blurb...
We are an independent Wine Merchant in Edinburgh (Internet/Warehouse/Wholesale/Retail/Wine Bar/Educators), established in the last century (1999!).
We peddle the thrifty... to the rare & ultimate drinking experience.
We flog grog that we, as practised drinkers, like to glug, at the price we would like to glug it at. Much as we all love Tesco (supermarkets have 70+% of the UK wine market)
.....I'm sure there is still room for a small one!
As much as is humanly possible, our wines are exclusive, artisan, direct-shipped & damn tasty. We don't do "Big Brands".
We deliver your wine via our own dashing, handsome van drivers (photos below) or use a "next day" courier for further afield .
Your order will be dealt with by one of our vaguely efficient team (....not photogenic, but not anonymous either).
ALL case deliveries are FREE (Mainland UK).
If you fancy popping in to browse & COLLECT your wine then you are very welcome to visit us in our wine warehouse (FREE CAR PARKING)..or visit our wine shop (see above)
If you would like to get a current list posted to you, then please e-mail or phone or carrier pidgeon & we will be delighted to oblige.
*To be the first to know of Great Grog Offers & Events, e-mail me and we'll add you to the e-mailing list - only Grog circulars will be sent & we WON'T give your address to anyone else
Richard Meadows - life before Grog
Set up Grog in '99 after having worked for Oddbins for 10 years, latterly in Edinburgh as a branch manager and staff "Product" Trainer.
R has the wset Diploma and has done the first year of the Master of Wine course.
He is also a wset Approved Tutor. An very keen drinker (& taster too) with a fondness for
(almost) anything tasty made from grapes...& a weakness for Champagne!
Richard has what is termed in the trade a "commercial" palate ie. he likes what most people like. His redness of complexion is a trick of the camera.
Janice - life before Grog
Behind every great man there’s a great woman. If it wasn‘t for Janice the rest of us would have no wine to sell, no money,
no fuel to put in the vans, no vans to put fuel in and so on and so forth. Has been known to sit down for a sandwich once, (always on the move!).
Simon - life before Grog
A ridiculously chirpy Teesider who was formerly known as an artist.
Simon loves a drop of wine most minutes and tends to know slightly more about what he’s drinking than the people who made it.
He can pontificate at length on many things (including wine, art, bikes, mountains, Middlesborough, Ridley Scott)..
Heather - life before Grog
A tactical drinker (she likes to plan her drinking out loud) with a taste for the finer things in life.
Rumoured to be an excellent cook too... (hint hint)
She changes her glasses according to her mood.
"Southside Red" - life before Grog
Red (a.k.a. Ian) was Oddbins' "Van Rouge" in Edinburgh for 10 years until scuttling
up the ladder to join us. Red has his "Intermediate" wine exam but his road knowledge is truly Encyclopaedic.
Likes to pretend he’s Neil Young and his blood is made from 100% Chardonnay. He plays groovy live sets in the Grog Bar from time to tiime.
Gary - life before Grog
Sleek, silent and stealthy like Keyser Soze. Highly organised and efficient. If you look at him for too long you turn into a goat.
Has a morbid fear of staircases (like all delivery folk).
Mat - life before Grog
Mat hails from Sheffield but we won't hold that against him (nor his love of tyres). He ran the "Oddies" in Newcastle
for aeons until insanity drove him even further North (he thought it would be warmer in Edinburgh). Mat has his "Higher" wine exam. He is also in charge of web-photos so can only blame himself for this likeness..
"Chris" - life before Grog
Big bloke, beard (sometimes). Can carry 8 cases of wine at once and has played rugby for the Indian national team. Don’t dare call him ugly.
Dave has a degree in Geophysics so is probably the most overqualified van driver on the planet.Not quite as hairy in the flesh as his picture would suggest..His real picture can be found on the
india rugby website. Dave disappears for a month's snow surfing every year (a hard life)..
"John" - life before Grog General Sales Bod, A thinking man's man. Only does three days a week so he can spend time thinking whilst doing DIY on his yacht in Monaco.
GREAT GROG WAREHOUSE
161 Bonnington Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH6 5BQ.
TEL 0131 555 0222 FAX 0131 555 3400
Email richard@greatgrog.co.uk
Site maintained by Richard, hence is not perfect!
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