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WINE | SPIRITS | BEER 2019 Canada p90 USA p92 Brazil & Uruguay p96 Chile p98 Argentina p101 South Africa p104 China p108 Australia p110 New Zealand p115 The list Fortified & Stickies p119 Magnums & Minis p124 p14 Champagne & Sparkling Wine on Tap & Bag in Box p130 p24 France Sake p132 p26 Alsace Spirits & Liqueurs p134 Loire Valley p28 Craft Beers & Ciders p135 Burgundy p32 Softs p136 Beaujolais p37 Jura & Savoie p39 Bordeaux p40 The front Rhone p44 The back Southern France p48 About Us p2 Italy p53 Customer Marketing p138 How To Order p3 Spain p66 Market Insights p140 New To Our Range p4 Portugal p74 Training p142 Bibendum Fine Wine p7 England p76 Events & Tastings p144 Vivid at Bibendum p8 Germany p79 Contacts p148 The 20+ Year Club p9 Austria p82 Hungary p84 Slovenia & Croatia p86 Turkey, Greece & Lebanon p88 Bibendum Portfolio 2019 Every year has its Our 2019 wine list has been curated with precisely this in mind. Our wine buying team particularities, yet 2019 spent last autumn travelling the highways and byways of the wine planet, ensuring not only that our existing suppliers align with current consumer trends, but to hunt out the will certainly go down as one most exciting and delicious new wines to bring back and share with you. of the more memorable. A key theme for us this year is ‘Mindful Winemaking’, which encompasses sustainable, Conscious that the world is organic, natural and biodynamic winemaking practices. But whatever you call these changing faster than ever, the wines, it’s more about the philosophy of the producers and how the wines taste, than UK wine drinker has become the number of accreditations they have or the money you spend on them. These increasingly interested in philosophies are often pioneered by the most colourful and engaging characters, and we’re delighted to be featuring a number of them in this list. Read about Bruno Dubois’ the provenance of what they thriving vineyard ecosystem on page 29, Alois Lageder’s self-sustaining wine estate on consume, which presents huge page 54, or about James and Annie Millton’s biodynamic vision on page 117. opportunities for our industry. We are excited to launch 113 new wines and 22 new producers this year, including an Consumer buying habits are award-winning new English wine producer (read about Albourne on page 77) and an changing and we need to be exciting husband-and-wife venture from New Zealand (read about Kelly Washington there to fulfil them. Wines on page 6). But we are also taking the time to reflect on the incredible relationships that Bibendum has established and nurtured for over 20 years. Some of the true greats of the wine industry started working with us back in the 1980s and 1990s, and we have acknowledged them on page 9 with some reflection from Willie Lebus, Michael Saunders, John Graves and myself. If you are a long-standing customer of ours, I am sure you will have your own memories. We look forward to continuing to provide you with an award-winning range of wines at market-leading service levels. All the best in 2019. Andrew Shaw Buying Director O F O F T T T T N H N H A E A E H H Y Y C C E E R R A A E E R R M M Awards highlighted throughout the list: 2 0 1 7 2 0 1 IWC – International Wine Challenge SWA – Sommelier Wine Awards MERCHANT OF THE YEAR MERCHANT OF THE YEAR IWSC – International Wine & Spirits Competition Sommelier Wine Awards 2017 Sommelier Wine Awards 2018 1 NUNC EST BIBENDUM About Us Bibendum is one of the UK’s most successful drinks businesses. We are a countrywide specialist for the On Trade and your premium wine and spirits partner. With a portfolio including 260 wine But the Bibendum service doesn’t stop at producers – over 90% of which are exclusive delivering great wines, beers, spirits and – we work with some of the world’s most sake... Our award-winning training team talented and authentic winemakers. In travels around the country to help your addition to wine, we also sell an extensive staff become more confident in selling range of premium spirits, craft beers and your complete range of drinks. On top of ciders, as well as a selection of sakes. We this, our in-house design team can help are passionate and knowledgeable about you take your drinks list to the next level, wine, and committed to helping you grow while helping you bring promotions and your business. We serve an ever-increasing merchandising to life. range of customers, from Michelin-starred restaurants and cocktail bars, to catering In the end it’s about creating a successful, companies and pub groups. Our skilled lasting business partnership that works for and diligent sales teams operate up and all of us. Call us on 0845 263 6924 down the country, from Brighton and or visit www.bibendum-wine.co.uk. Birmingham, to London and Glasgow. 2 How To Order Existing Customers Nothing is more important than Telephone customer service and getting the 0845 263 6924 basics right. We are committed to Option 1 - Orders | Option 2 - Customer Care constantly improving our systems to provide the best possible service Email orders for all our customers. [email protected] To set up EDI Ordering please contact your Account Manager Opening hours: New Customers Monday to Friday | 8.30am – 6pm Telephone Sunday | 11am – 6pm 0845 263 6924 | Option 3 Bank Holidays | 8.30am – 5pm Our sales operations team will help you set up an account and give you a form to use for email orders, or as a reference when ordering by phone. For speed and accuracy, please ensure you have the following information to hand: NUNC EST1. Your account number – quoted on all Bibendum delivery notes, invoices and statements. 2. The product description of each item required, including the BIBENDUMname of wine, bottle size and vintage. 3. Minimum order quantity is 36 bottles of wine and spirits; or goods to the value of £250 ex-VAT. Additional terms may apply. For our complete terms of sale, visit the Bibendum website at www.bibendum-wine.co.uk/terms-of-sale 3 NEW TO OUR RANGE IN 2019 A regional French refresh The newest additions to Bibendum’s French portfolio all share a profound connection to the land. Whether they’re from Jura, Burgundy or the Loire, they are characterised by a desire to create an honest expression of their respective terroirs, by promoting biodiversity in the vineyard and taking a hands-off approach in the winery. Marc Delienne Domaine Bruno Dubois Domaine Francis Blanchet “Our new French producers Loire | p29 Loire | p31 each share a strong pride Before settling in Saumur-Champigny, Now run by 8th generation Matthieu, for their region and their Bruno Dubois worked at Domaine Lapierre Domaine Francis Blanchet has been making region’s history. Their work in Morgon, where his passion for organics wine in the Upper Loire since the 18th is based on a respect for and non-interventionist winemaking was Century. The domaine now covers around 14 the land and an ambition born. Bruno’s vineyards are inter-planted hectares, and has some of the oldest genetic with native brush and trees, while bird material in the Loire Valley. The domaine to communicate a sense of houses, bat shelters and bee hives are dotted works in a sustainable way to express the place through their wines.” around the estate. specificity of terroir - kimmeridgian marls, flinty clay, and clay-limestone. Robert Mathias | French Wine Buyer Maison Caroline Lestime Domaine David Beaupere Domaine Marc Delienne Burgundy | p35 Beaujolais | p38 Beaujolais | p38 Daughter of vigneron Jean-Noel Louis-Clement came back to work with, After quitting his job in Paris, Marc Gagnard, Caroline Lestime still makes and take over the small family domaine in Delienne studied winemaking, before the wines at her father’s domaine, but 2008. From 2011 Louis-Clement converted buying some vines in Fleurie. In the started ‘Maison Caroline Lestime’ in 2016 the small family estate to organic and vineyard it’s all about biodiversity among as a way to explore her own creativity and biodynamic viticulture, working in his 40-80-year-old vines, while in the cellar forge her own identity. She buys grapes a low intervention way. Julienas has it’s a stripped-back approach that gives us from a variety of small growers, and vinifies a unique terroir often with a higher these powerful expressions of Fleurie. them separately to explore the variety of proportion of blue volcanic rock, shown flavours her local terroir has to offer. in his impressive Vaylotte cuvee. Louis- Clement’s hard work is almost single- “I try to reflect the terroir in my wines, to handedly putting Julienas on the map as bring the terroir into the glass.” a unique and robust Beaujolais Cru. Caroline Lestime, Maison Caroline Lestime 4 Domaine de la Pinte Jura | p39 The special thing about Domaine de la Pinte is the soil. Savagnin loves the blue marl clay surrounding the domaine, while red grapes do fantastically well in the areas of red clay. Pierre Martin manages things these days and is a firm believer in biodynamics, which helps loosen these tough clay soils so the vines can get the nutrients they need. “A biodynamic estate is a living organism where every element is important: the soil, the plant, and the work of humans. This is the very definition of terroir.” Pierre Martin, Domaine de la Pinte Chateau Guiraud Bordeaux | p42 In 2011 Chateau Guiraud became the first Grand Cru Classe to be certified organic.

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