After several family holidays together in Italy and moaning that they couldn't find the same exquisite Italian wines at home - they were told by their wives to stop talking (and drinking!) and do something about it! Following this wonderful ultimatum, in 2006 Ranulf Middleton & Nigel Cowan started D'Arcy Wines.
Following success with our chosen Italian wines we expanded to more and more wine producing countries, always looking for the small vineyards that prdouce to passionate high standards, delivering exceptional taste and quality. And of course good value.

www.darcywines.co.uk was launched earlier this year - our on-line shop, which we hope people will visit and chat to us about wines as if they were visiting a shop or wine cellar. Enter your details in 'Sign up for news' and we'll keep you informed of new wines, special offers, wine tastings and other events. Follow Ranulf's Ramblings on his blog page - this won't always be about wine, but we will try and get him to focus occasionally.

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!"
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