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In the press…
It's always very exciting when we see wines we stock picking up awards and being praised in the press. Here are just a few of our recent award winners... £9.99 per bottle | £59.94 per case Ontañón Rioja Blanco, DOCa Rioja 2023: (our current white wine of...
We’re Multi Award Winning!
D.Byrne & Co. is awarded best in the North West! We are thrilled and proud to announce that not only have we won Decanter’s 2023 ‘Best Regional Multi-Store’ for North West England, we’ve also won 20203 ‘Regional Retailer for Northern England’ at the...
Read All About It!
In these days of social media is local advertising becoming a thing of the past, discuss. Whilst digging into the history of the business I have found that more recent generations of the Byrnes have spent very little on advertising, preferring the power of word of...
Two velociraptors and Two Paddocks
The film Jurassic Park and particularly the scene where two velociraptors hunt down John Hammond’s grandchildren in that chilling stainless-steel kitchen terrified me throughout my childhood. Alright, I’ll come clean, I was thirty years old when the film was...
That One Bottle
We all have that one bottle we’ll remember for the rest of our lives, right? If you don’t, you may not be trying hard enough. Mine is a double magnum of Rimauresq cru classé Côtes de Provence and I’ll tell you for why. It was a very kind present from friends given...
New to the shelves…
Minimalism isn’t a word that we’d use to describe the D. Byrne & Co shopping experience. Anyone that visited our old cellars on King Street will know that if there’s any available space, whether it be floor, ceiling, or otherwise, then it’s not long before it...
Orange Crush
Kate delves into the world of Orange wine and discusses why she thinks its more than just a passing trend. Somewhat of a misnomer, orange wine actually has nothing to do with the citrus fruit of the same name, instead it merely refers to the wines colouring....
‘Au Naturel’ The rise of Pet Nat
Pet Nat (short for Petillant Naturel) is a French term that roughly translates to ‘naturally sparkling’. Similarly to orange wine, Pet Nat is going through a bit of a renaissance at the moment and its cult like following and links to Natural winemaking have led to...
Two men walk into a shop and ask for…
Sounds like the start of a 1970s end of the pier joke, you might think, but read on. We are fortunate to still have in our possession a selection of beautiful leather-bound early sales ledgers for D. Byrne & Co., the earliest dating back to between the two...