For us, serving that perfect drink is part of a much bigger journey. From where the ingredients are found, formed and bottled, to how the product is sold, served and then finally tasted. It’s the length of our 200 years of history sourcing and supplying every type of drink that gives us the knowledge of delivering a great customer drinking experience. With over 7000 product lines, including a fantastic variety of spirits, beers, ales, ciders and soft drinks along with 1400 carefully selected wines - we are ready to take any order. With over 1500 committed professionals based throughout the UK - we are also ready to serve.

Established in 1997, BI has grown to become one of the leading European fine wine merchants with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Los Angeles, and a rapidly growing international customer base. Our product offering covers all the traditional wine growing regions of Europe plus the best of the New World.

We are the largest independent drinks wholesaler in the UK with over 100 years’ experience in supplying over 5000 on trade products to customers across the UK. We have a dedicated sales force willing to visit our customers premises to give advice on product range and keep them up to date with the latest market trends. As the biggest independent wholesaler to the on trade market, our pricing is incredibly competitive.

Hallgarten & Novum Wines is one of the UK’s leading specialist wine merchants, with over 85 years of experience importing wines from producers around the world and supplying the UK on- and off-trade. In 2018, the business achieved the ISO 14001 accreditation for its dedication to minimising its environmental impact, as well as successfully meet all criteria to attain Investors in People accreditation. Hallgarten was named European Merchant of the Year in 2019 and 2018, and New World Merchant of the Year 2017 by the Sommelier Wine Awards, has won the prestigious International Wine Challenge Merchant Wine List of the Year Award in 2015, 2016 and 2018 and IWSC Wine Importer of the Year 2018.

Armit Wines is a wine merchant for discerning customers, articulated through carefully curated wine selections. When John Armit founded the business in 1988, he pioneered the practice of buying directly from producers and building long standing personal relationships. Today, we continue to embody John’s original philosophy. We operate as the antithesis to the traditional style of a wine merchant and are proud of our enviable portfolio. We continue to exclusively represent extraordinary wine estates and distribute them via a multi-channel approach to hotels & restaurants, private collectors, retail, wholesale and other fine wine merchants. We source wines directly from some of the world’s greatest producers and many of our strongest and exclusive relationships have been developed over 25 years or more. Our producers from Italy includes iconic wineries such as Tenuta San Guido, Bruno Giacosa, Ornellaia, Querciabella, Tua Rita, Romano Dal Forno, Pietradolce, Fattoria Le Pupille and Agricola Punica. We also represent Château Lafleur in Pomerol and secure allocations of all the famous Crus in Bordeaux. Our Burgundy portfolio includes some of the leading estates such as Domaine Leflaive. Other highlights from our range include La Rioja Alta S.A., Diamond Creek, Domaine Huet, Digby Fine English, Delaire Graff, Bien Nacido and Champagne Pierre Gimonnet et fils. Our aim is to be the trusted guide throughout the world of wine and we pride ourselves on our unrivalled portfolio of classic estates, as well as our discoveries from some of the more hidden corners of the wine world too.

EXPLORE. TASTE. LOVE - As Scotland's leading independent wines and spirits merchant, we have a commitment to our customers to ensure they receive the best possible product and service. Our wines and spirits portfolio is second-to-none with over 2,000 wines handpicked from 120 producers, many of which cannot be found anywhere else. We lead one of the foremost wine training academies in the world, twice shortlisted as a WSET Educator of the Year, with our premium spirits training ever growing in demand. Winelisting and in-house design services complete the service package and, with a national sales and distribution resource, we go the extra mile to meet our customers' needs on time and in full. We deliver beyond expectations.