Since we finished judging at the Sommelier Wine Awards, the SWA team have been busy crunching numbers to determine our Merchant and Producer of the Year awards. These awards recognise the best performing wine merchants and producers in the tasting and are designed to show consistent excellence and quality across wine portfolios. The results are determined by a weighted points system, based on the performance of all wines entered by a merchant or producer.

We are very grateful to all the UK wine merchants and producers – large and small – who entered their wines into the Sommelier Wine Awards in 2024. This year’s entries covered a wide range of styles, regions and price points, with some merchants focusing more on one particular area and others covering all bases. As ever, there were a few that stood out from the crowd, and these special awards honour those wine merchants that went home with a significant medal haul this year.

Winners will be announced at 3pm on Monday 1st July at the Movers & Shakers stage at Imbibe Live! You can register for tickets to attend the show by clicking on this link

The shortlists are

Large Merchant of the Year    

Bibendum

Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Liberty Wines

Small Merchant of the Year   

Gonzalez Byass

Jascots Wine Merchants

Pol Roger Portfolio

Fine Wine Merchant of the Year          

Alliance Wine

Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Liberty Wines

Value Merchant of the Year    

Bibendum

Gonzalez Byass

LWC Drinks

Majestic Commercial

New World Merchant of the Year        

Bibendum

Liberty Wines

Pol Roger Portfolio

Classics Merchant of the Year             

Alliance Wine

Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Liberty Wines

Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year

A-Nobis

Fox & Fox

Laurent-Perrier

European Producer of the Year

Alpha Estate

Ramon Bilbao

New World Producer of the Year        

Kaiken

Neudorf

Stella Bella