Explaining the Ideal Wine Company's Fine Wine Delivery Service

We always strive to ensure you receive outstanding service when you purchase a bottle of luxury wine from the Ideal Wine Company. As part of our commitment to excellence, we have a first-rate fine wine delivery service. Road on for more details.

Buying wine online

Data from Rabobank, a financial services group, indicates that people across the UK are increasingly choosing to buy wine online. It’s not hard to see why. E-commerce channels provide consumers with convenience, allowing them to make purchases from the comfort of their own homes.

If you’re looking for an online fine wine retailer, think about purchasing your next luxury vintage from the Ideal Wine Company. We sell bottles produced in some of the most prominent wine making regions on earth, from old world areas like Bordeaux, to emerging new world regions like California.

Fine wine delivery

When you make a purchase from us, you will need to use our fine wine delivery service, where we arrange for your bottles to be sent right to your doorstep. Our deliveries take place between 8am and 5pm on weekdays. No deliveries can be made on a weekend.

There is a charge attached to the Ideal Wine Company fine wine delivery service. We should note that the cost listed in this article is based on UK addresses only, so prices may vary for delivery to non-UK addresses and import duty may apply. We don’t currently deliver overseas. Our minimum delivery charge is a bank balance friendly £15 and this will allow for up to 12 bottles of your favourite tipple to be sent direct to you.

Here at the Ideal Wine Company, we also buy fine wine from consumers, allowing us to widen the variety of products available to our customers. We should note that if we buy a bottle of wine from you, we won’t charge you for collection, ensuring you truly reap the benefits of the sale. It’s important to note however that if the wine you are transferring to us is in a bonded warehouse account, you may be charged a fee by your warehouse.

Value for money

The Ideal Wine Company is committed to providing real value for money. Our fine wine delivery service ensures you receive your purchase conveniently, without having to break the bank! For instance if you buy three bottles of Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1990 from us– a great Italian red wine by the way, you can have them delivered straight to you for just £15!

UK Consumers are Buying More Wine on the Internet

A new report has shown the Ideal Wine Company that UK consumers are buying more wine online than ever before, as millennials increasingly come to appreciate our favourite tipple.

Future of wine buying

The World Wide Web has provided people with the tools they need to buy luxury products such as fine wine more easily than ever before. For example if you’re a fan of vintages from Burgundy, you can buy the Chambertin Potel 2005 online from the Ideal Wine Company for only £314.50. The internet is the future of wine buying. A study conducted by Wine Intelligence, a consultancy firm, showed that 79% of respondents prefer to buy fine wine on the internet than at the cellar door.

According to Natasha Rastegar, the Australia and New Zealand manager for Wine Intelligence, this is because buying wine online offers convenience and more opportunities to secure better discounts.

Wine Quarterly report  

Rabobank has recently released its Global Wine Quarterly Q4 report. This document indicates that whilst the growth rates of online wine sales vary across the world, they have one thing in common. They outpace growth in traditional retail markets around the planet by a country mile.  City A.M reported that this observation made by Rabobank in its Global Wine Quarterly Q4 report applies to the UK. The report suggested that total wine sales in this country expanded 3.5% in the first quarter of 2015. However online wine sales grew by a staggering 11% within the same span of time. 

Influence of millennials 

This begs the question, why are we buying more wine online? The Rabobank report attributed this rise to millennials; consumers aged between 18 and 29. Millennials are an “increasingly wine-drinking demographic,” and this is a vital reason why online wine sales recorded such rapid growth in the first three months of this year.  The influence of the millennial market isn’t just restricted to the UK. The US is thirsty for wine, with experts predicting that American wine consumption will increase 11% from 2014-2018.

David Trone, owner of US wine chain Total Wine and More, argued that this rise in American wine consumption will be driven by the country’s 77 million millennials. He suggested that 18-29 year olds are “less risk averse, more sophisticated on food and wine, (and) well-travelled.” 

Buy wine online 

If you want to see why millennials are set to raise American wine consumption, and why UK 18-29 year olds are driving online wine sales, check out the Ideal Wine Company’s product list. You can buy the Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1990, a standout vintage, from us for only £331 per bottle!