11 Drinks Delivery Services To Know About
Winebuyers
Winebuyers is an online wine club with a simple mission: to bring wine into the 21st century. Winebuyers connects customers directly with some of the best vineyards, specialist merchants and distilleries, offering access to over 50,000 bottles spanning 40 countries, all with zero mark-up and a commission-free price tag. Membership is free and gives you personalised recommendations based on tastes and preferences from search and order history, and users can choose wine by food pairing suggestions and filter by vegan wines.
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Mr Lyan
Award-winning bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana, aka Mr Lyan, is famed for his innovative and forward-thinking cocktails. Now, he’s bottled a selection of some of his most popular drinks, such as ‘Bonfire Old Fashioned’ made with Mr Lyan whisky, lapsang souchong and Mr Lyan cola bitters, and the ‘Spotless Martini’ made with Mr Lyan gin, vermouths, distilled olive and distilled lemon. The range offers the kind of drinks you’ll usually find at top bars such as White Lyan, Cub and Lyaness in the comfort of your own home.
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Lady of the Grapes
Lady of the Grapes wine bar and restaurant in Covent Garden is now offering free local delivery of wine, cheese and charcuterie. The new online shop sells a range of wines including Woman & Wolf 2018 from South Africa, Mise du Printemps 2018 from Alsace and Perverso’s The Garage Wine Co from Chile. Deli foods include cured meats such as bresaola, salami and chorizo, plus cheese such as comte, reblochon, fermier and cashel blue. Other snacks include pickles, almonds, olives and jars of cassoulet – all perfect companions for wine.
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Mac & Wild
Mac & Wild is delivering both hearty Scottish dishes and pre-bottled cocktails. The array of drinks includes the ‘Blackwatch Espresso Martini’ – made with Talisker 10 and coffee beans from Edinburgh Roastary, Artisan Roast’s and Janszoon – and the ‘Bonnie Spritz’ with Haig Clubman whisky infused with rowan berries, lime and enhanced by Rosato vermouth, rhubarb, Peychaud’s bitters and a touch of agave.
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The Umbrella Project
The award-winning bar teams at The Sun Tavern and Discount Suit Company are selling bottled cocktails, beer, cider, spirits and branded t-shirts via their online store. The team have bottled three cocktails – old fashioned, negroni and boulevardier – with each bottle containing four serves, ready to be stirred and served. Umbrella Brewing’s ginger beer and sparkling cider will also be available to purchase in boxes of eight, as well as ‘Lucky Dip’ boxes of eight craft beers, chosen at random by its head brewer. A free bag of ice will be supplied with every London order.
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Diogenes The Dog
Diogenes the Dog, the neighbourhood wine bar, shop and café in Elephant & Castle, has launched a home delivery sommelier service. Cooking a meal and not sure what wine to pair with it? Diogenes the Dog will offer advice on choices and then deliver the perfect bottle of wine to complement the dish. The wine bar will give customers advice on pairings, styles and preferences all over the phone.
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Aske Stevenson
Aske Stephenson, the drinks-brand innovation arm from the team behind award-winning whisky bar Black Rock, offers a range of tongue-in-cheek bottled cocktails. We love the team’s tasty take on classics, such as the ‘Peanut Butter & Jam Old Fashioned’, the ‘Garden Bramble’ and the ‘Flat White Russian’. Worth purchasing just for the fun packaging.
Visit TheWhiskyExchange.com
Hatcha Bar
Deano Moncreiffe and Emma Murphy opened destination agave bar Hatcha in Dalston in 2019, offering 25 different tequilas, mezcals and lesser-known agave spirits. The bar has had great success with both its agave flights and its signature serve, the ‘Mirror Margarita’. Now this sip is available to order from the bar in a 50cl bottle – equal to four large serves. Simply pour over ice and enjoy.
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The Proofing Room
The Proofing Room is a new cocktail delivery service from the team behind Milroy's of Soho. The service offers an imaginative menu of ready-to-drink cocktails for free same-day, no-contact delivery in east London and the City, or across the UK within 48 hours. Customers can choose one of the bar’s signature serves for two or more or keep it classic with a bottle of Hayman’s gin and the mixer of your choice.
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Black Lines Drinks
Before the outbreak of Covid-19, Black Lines Drinks’ draught cocktails were stocked in Harrods’ dining hall, Orasay, The Standard Hotel and the National Theatre. Now its three signature drinks are available to order for home delivery: the ‘Paloma’, ‘Elderflower Collins’ and ‘Pear & White Tea Fizz’. The 750ml bottles can be ordered in a combination of singles and case sizes. Using fresh pressed juices and partnering with the best independent British distilleries – including Chase and East London Liquor Company – the team aims to provide drinkers with the best lockdown libations possible.
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Humble Grape
Its four restaurants and bars may have closed, but Humble Grape now continues as a wine shop. The team is delivering across the UK and has two discount codes: for 10% off six bottles quote ‘THANKYOU10’ and for 20% off 12 bottles quote ‘THANKYOU20’. Every Tuesday at 6:15pm, the team will be hosting ‘Tuesday Wine Chats’ on Instagram Live, inviting viewers to bring whatever wine they want to the party, as a wine expert and winemaker field their questions.
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