Area of business

Laithwaites Direct Wines - one of the world's largest home-delivery wine merchants. Laithwaites Direct Wines is part of the Laithwaites Wine group, started by wine merchant Tony Laithwaite 1969 when he drove a small van of Bordeaux from Saint-Emilion to sell from a railway arch in Windsor.Each year we deliver wine to around 1,000,000 customers internationally in Australia, United States, Switzerland, Germany, India, Hong Kong and Taiwan, with more locations on their way. Our international partners include The Wall Street Journal, London's Sunday Times, Zagat, British Airways Executive Club, and HSBC, while our Hong Kong offices opened in 2009 now serves over 15,000 customers.The company has grown to one of the world's largest home-delivery wine companies winning prestigious titles within the wine world. At the event they call ‘the Oscars of wine', the annual International Wine Challenge (IWC), Laithwaite’s Wine was awarded IWC Wine Merchant of the Year 2015 and IWC Online Retailer of the Year 2015.