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Your worldly-wise fine wine merchants from Bristol, England. Pioneers of great taste since 1793. Quench your wine curiosity.

03/01/2025

Indulge in the ultimate comedy & wine experience with a glass in hand and a grin on your face! At this comedy night we'll pair each comedian's unique style with a matching wine profile - whether it's a dry, sophisticated wit alongside a deep Cabernet or a light, bubbly humour served with a crisp Sauvignon Blanc.

Come sip, laugh, and savour the night away! Tickets available from The Bristol Comedy Festival.

27/12/2024

Hello Bristol, we're back in our shop today! If your wine supplies have dwindled over Christmas come and pay us a visit.

Opening hours:
Friday 27th December - 10am-6pm
Saturday 28th December - 10am-6pm
Sunday 29th December - Closed
Monday 30th December - 10am-6pm
Tuesday 31st December - 10am-6pmWednesday 1st January - Closed

06/12/2024

When do you pull out the Port? Is it for the cheeseboard? The Christmas pudding? Or maybe the mince pies?

Rich with lavish velvety flavours of deep cherry, berry, plum and chocolatey spice, our Late Bottled Vintage Ruby Port is also excellent with decadent chocolate desserts ... surely the perfect bottle to pop on the table at the end of Christmas dinner?

Get your Christmas wines here: https://brnw.ch/21wPeCB

20/11/2024

With five weeks to go until Christmas, we'd say it's finally time to start thinking about what bottles we'll be opening up alongside our festive feasts.

Will you be keeping your dinner classic by pairing turkey with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir? Or will you be serving up something different this year?

Let us know in the comments below, and get your Christmas wines in soon!

06/11/2024

Join us for an elegant fine wine dinner featuring Felton Road Wines and food pairings from Little French.

While you enjoy courses including dressed crab and truffle risotto, you'll also gain insights into the vineyard's philosophy and winemaking process.

From the first sip to the last bite, this experience promises to be a celebration of taste, tradition, and terroir.

Tickets for this exclusive evening are £120 per person and can be purchased at https://brnw.ch/21wOpSZ

03/11/2024

The perfect winter tasting - in collaboration with .bristol - we will be exploring different styles of sherry and the influence and history of sherry casks in whisky, all within the beautiful surroundings of our historic cellars.

Join us from 7pm on Saturday 23rd November for this fascinating evening. Get your tickets here: https://brnw.ch/21wOl2x

16/10/2024

Our incredibly popular Celebration of Wine is back for another year, this time at Bristol Grammar School.

Join Mimi Avery, along with a host of winemakers. to taste your way around the world - from Bordeaux to Barolo and Catalunya to Coonawara.

We're running an afternoon and an evening session on Saturday 16th November.

Tickets are £35 per person and available online.

08/10/2024

Last week we were delighted to host 38 cyclists for coffee and breakfast at our Culver Street store, before they set off on a three day, charity bike ride.

Raising money for the riders covered over 100km a day, cycling from Bristol to London.

The money raised will support those who work in the drinks and hospitality industry.

25/09/2024

Last week Mimi Avery led guests through a tasting of eight exceptional wines, each telling a chapter of our 100-plus year history.

Hosted in the cellar under our iconic Culver Street shop, wine lovers were treated to Musigny Grand Cru 1969 Burgundy and Klein Constantia 1994 Western Cape.

More recent vintages included Averys Special Vintage 2014 Champagne and a 10 Year Old Tawny Port.

It was a spectacular evening, hearing Mimi's memories of her father and grandfather, as well as some of her own tales of the wine world.

To find out more about upcoming events head to https://brnw.ch/21wN8ZG.

20/09/2024

We opened another even older bottle on Friday for a private tasting in the cellars - Tavrida Black Muscat 1937.

Amazingly it was still full of life, sweet with bags of fig and sultana aromas.

The Black Muscat grape variety was brought to the Crimea in the first half of the 19th century and became known under the name of Muscat Kallyaba. The wine distinguishes itself with its strikingly bright juicy ruby-garnet colour, smartly sparkled in a glass with various soft glints of ruby and beautiful precious crystal colour.

The wineries in Massandra were built during the reign of Czar Nicholas II. During the process, wine caves containing thousands of bottles were constructed beneath the city. This “personal wine cellar” of the Czar contained tens of thousands of bottles. These caves survived the Russian Revolution, both World Wars, the fall of Communism, and Yakov Smirnoff.

In 1990, about 13,000 of these bottles – never before available in the West – were put to auction. At Averys we have a small collection in our Fine Wine cage.

12/09/2024

What would you imagine a 55-year-old bottle of wine tastes like? Well we can tell you!

Last year a long-standing and loyal customer of ours brought in an original 1969 Averys bottling of Pommard Rugiens after finding in their cellars. We all thought it would probably be over the hill but in fact was delightful showing delicate, sweet red fruits.

What's the oldest wine you've tasted?

31/08/2024

Today we can reveal the three top wines from our Summer of Wine tasting in Bristol. These are the top-selling fizz, red, and white from the day of the event. So you can see how much your fellow customers loved them.

Didn’t make it to Summer of Wine? Not to worry, the date has been confirmed for Celebration of Wine, our biggest tasting of the year.

Join us on Saturday 16th November at Bristol Grammar School for Celebration of Wine 2024. There will be a whole host of wines to try, producers to meet, and much more. You have two sessions to choose from and the evening always sells out first. So if you’re getting a group of you together, make sure you order your tickets early.

In the meantime, try the champion wines from Summer of Wine and decide which is your favourite.

18/08/2024

Not every wine is an Averys wine, only the very best make the cut. That's why when we put our name on something, we make sure it's the best.

This Pinot Noir, crafted for us by winemaker Vincent Prunier, is soft and seductive, brimming with juicy red berry flavours and finished with subtle, leafy notes. A truly classic wine with a personal touch.

16/08/2024

We are lucky to have such a long history and to have developed great connections with top producers around the world. At this special tasting event, Mimi Avery - 5th generation Avery working in the company, is going to guide us round her top picks that highlight our long relationship with wine makers and the wine trade.

Head to https://brnw.ch/21wLSXk to find out more.

09/08/2024

Who better to ask for their top picks from the cellars than our team of expert Wine Advisors?

Based above our Bristol shop, they know the range inside out and can tell you exactly what’s hitting the spot with your fellow wine lovers right now. The only condition? They had to choose a red drinking at its absolute peak. So every wine here is beautifully mature, and reveals a magical world of complex flavours that only come with age.

Head to https://brnw.ch/21wLLbT to find out more.

07/08/2024

Join Averys and Laura from Brushstrokes Courses for a delightful Paint and Wine evening. Learn how to paint an autumnal candle whilst enjoying five wines and a carefully selected cheeseboard.

Head to https://brnw.ch/21wLICU to find out more.

01/08/2024

In 1963 Ronald Avery blended the first Averys Champagne with help from the family-owned and run Champagne Boizel. Since then, three generations of the Avery family has selected the blend but we've stayed with that Champagne house for the last six decades.

And there's something else that's stayed the same. You've probably noticed the rise in price of big-name Champagne brands which is why we're proud to have held the price of Averys Special Cuvée Champagne for the last four years.

17/07/2024

Join us tomorrow evening for a wine tasting showcasing aromatic grape varieties such as Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Viogner, Muscat along with a selection of complementary cheeses. Find out more at www.averys.com/events

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9 Culver Street
Bristol
BS15LD

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 6pm
Tuesday	10am - 7pm
Wednesday	10am - 7pm
Thursday	10am - 7pm
Friday	10am - 7pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm

Website

http://www.averys.com/

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Christmas pudding? Mince pies? Cheese board? Whatever you’re ending your Christmas feast with next week, our Averys Late Bottled Vintage Port will be the perfect accompaniment. Rich, ripe, red fruit flavours and heady spice blend to create a warming, luxurious drink that will be the cheery cherry on top of your festive celebrations. #Port #LBVPort #AverysWineCellars #BristolWineShop

The best sound in the world? A bottle of Champagne popping open in our opinion. And if you’re looking for a special bottle for Christmas Day, then of course we’re going to recommend Averys Own Special Cuvée Champagne. Available in store and online. #ChristmasFizz #Champagne #AverysWineCellars #BristolWineShop

Our incredibly popular Celebration of Wine is back for another year, this time at Bristol Grammar School. Join Mimi Avery, along with a host of winemakers. to taste your way around the world - from Bordeaux to Barolo and Catalunya to Coonawara. We're running an afternoon and an evening session on Saturday 16th November. Tickets are £35 per person and available online.

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A history of Averys

Our story began with a shop in Bristol in 1793. Through the generations, the Avery family have been at the heart of the business and are famous for being among the great pioneers of the British wine trade.

It was in the 1920s with Ronald Avery at the helm that Averys sailed to success.

While other UK wine merchants bought wines from agents, Ronald made a point of travelling to wine estates to taste the wines with the winemakers. He was an excellent taster and by tasting in situ, he quickly discovered the best wines, producers and vintages.

The relationships he built would become the cornerstone of Averys’ success and last until this day. In 1949, after sailing his yacht to Bordeaux, he met the Moueix family, one of today’s most important Bordeaux families. They encouraged him to buy a few cases of Château Pétrus, a wine which was unknown at the time but would become one of the most expensive wines in the world.

Such was his reputation that many winemakers fresh from graduating in oenology would be keen to train under the great Ronald Avery. Famous winemakers who worked with Ronald at the start of their careers include Wolf Blass, one of Australia’s most flamboyant and well-loved winemakers.

In 1964, Ronalds son John spent his summer holiday in California where he was so impressed by the wines that he eventually persuaded his father to start selling those of Beaulieu Vineyards. The famous names of Ridge, Heitz and Sterling would follow and Averys became one of the early supporters of Californian wines.

The following year he travelled around Australia in a Rolls-Royce and met some of Australia’s leading wine figures. He came home with an order for 10 cases of Penfolds Grange 1960. This was the first time Grange had been imported to the UK and, of course, it would go on to become Australia’s most famous wine.

Not content with being first to import many of the famous names of Australia and California, John began to explore New Zealand. He imported the first commercial New Zealand wines to the UK in 1978, a year before New Zealand even produced a sauvignon blanc.

Owing to his forthright opinions and excellent tasting ability, John became one of the world’s most admired wine judges. He was the first European to judge at the New Zealand Wine Show in 1978 and continued travelling and judging on wine panels around the world right up until his death in 2012.

Today, Averys’ insatiable appetite for wine excitement is embraced by a team of wine buyers and John’s daughter, Mimi, who continue to innovate and pioneer up-and-coming wine regions and winemakers.