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LOADS OF 2013 EVENTS
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WHY BUY FROM GROG?
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FREE delivery Mainland UK. Min order 12 wines mixed any way (offshore? please ask)

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Browse & Buy Wine & Beer online
Minimum order for FREE DELIVERY mainland UK is 12 wines, mixed or unmixed. Thanks.

download a "May 2013" WINE list & Events (<1mb opens in new window)
Download our May 2013 BEER List Prices are per bottle to collect in Dalkeith Road shop (we can deliver) (<0.5mb).

Site updated on 10th May.

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SCOTTISH WINE MERCHANT OF THE YEAR 2009 iwsc London

Grog Warehouse, FIND US
17 East Cromwell Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HD, Scotland.
tel 0131 555 0222

Events & Fairs
Click to see a varity of events, dinners & tastings (loads)..


Grog Retail Shop
Scottish Independent retailer of the Year 2011
'Scottish Specialist Off-Licence of the Year'2009.
2 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Scotland.
(Homebase is opposite & has a car park, please don't quote me though) TEL 0131 667 2855. Pick up SINGLE BOTTLES of wine (same prices)


Wholesale & Corporate Accounts & Weddings
We supply to lots of Restaurants, businesses & Offices, can we help you? We also frequently service big functions & weddings. Advice on styles & quantities, tastings, sale or return, free glass loan, you name it...

Richard's Waffle
May 2013

GROG WHO?? The blurb...
We are an independent Wine Merchant in Edinburgh (Internet/Warehouse/Wholesale/Retail/courses established in the last century...1999 :) We peddle the thrifty... to the rare drinking experience. We flog grog that we, as practised drinkers, like to glug, at the price we would like to glug it at. Much as we all love Tesco (supermarkets have 70+% of the UK wine market) .....I'm sure there is still room for a small one! As much as is humanly possible, our wines are exclusive, artisan, direct-shipped & damn tasty. We don't do "Brands", sorry. We deliver your wine via our own dashing, gorgeous van drivers (photos below) or use a "next day" courier (less gorgeous) for further afield .

Your order will be dealt with by one of our vaguely efficient team (....not photogenic, but not anonymous either).
FREE delivery on EVERY case (12 bottles mixed), MAINLAND UK (offshore is about £20-ish).
If you fancy popping in to browse & COLLECT your wine please visit our wine shop (see above)
REFUNDS/RETURNS...If you are not happy with your wine we will offer a full refund or replacement, whichever you prefer. Please contact us as soon as possible (within 2 weeks of receipt).

If you would like to get a current list posted to you, then please e-mail or phone & we will be delighted to oblige. is that enough blurb? Here is a (very) amateur film of the warehouse, just to show we do indeed exist in the real world...

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*To be the first to know of Great Grog Offers & Events, e-mail me and we'll add you to the e-mailing list - only Grog circulars will be sent & we WON'T give your address to anyone else

 Richard - life before GrogRichard

Set up Grog in '99 after having worked for Oddbins (remember them?) for 10 years, latterly in Edinburgh as a branch manager and staff "Product" Trainer. R has the wset Diploma and has done the first year Master of Wine. He is also a wset Approved Tutor. A far too keen drinker & taster, as friends will testify, with a fondness for anything decent made from grapes...R has what is termed in the trade a "commercial" palate ie. he likes what most people like. Redness of complexion is a trick of the camera. Holds the record for the heaviest bottle bank in his street.

Janice - life before Grog

Janice Behind every great man there’s a great woman. If it wasn‘t for Janice the rest of us would have no wine to sell, no money, no fuel to put in the vans, no vans to put fuel in and so on and so forth. Allegedly sat down for a sandwich once. Has worked for Grog for 13 yrs (since childhood).

Simon - life before Grog

Simon A ridiculously chirpy Teesider who was formerly known as an artist. Simon loves a drop of wine most minutes and tends to know slightly more about what he’s drinking than the people who made it. He will pontificate at length on many things including wine, art, cycles, mountains, Middlesbrough, Ridley Scott (who was also from Middlesbrough). Now in his 9th year at Grog.

Heather - life before Grog

Heather A tactical drinker (she likes to plan her drinking out loud) with a taste for all the finer things in life but not the bank account to match. Rumoured to be an excellent cook too... (hint hint). A 8th year grogger.

"Red" - life before Grog

red

Red (also know as Ian) was Oddbins' "Van man" in Edinburgh for 10 years (where Richard originally gave him the job!) until sloping across to join Grog about 9 years ago. Red only has his "Intermediate" wine exam but his road knowledge is Encyclopaedic. Likes to pretend he’s Neil Young and his blood is made from 100% Chardonnay. Red & Janice only recently discovered they stood in the same queues for Status Quo concerts 30 years ago. Oh how things could be so different today. Aspires to enter "Mastermind" with specialist subject of Elvis.

Gary - life before Grog

gary

Sleek, silent and stealthy like a Ninja. Highly organised and efficient. If you look at him for too long you turn into a goat. Has a morbid, muttering dislike of staircases (like most delivery folk). 6 years in Grog? Crumbs, how time flies.

"Chris" - life before Grog

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Big bloke, beard (sometimes). 6 foot 4 inches & 18 stone & can carry 8 cases of wine at once. When I say 18 stone, I mean 20 stone, he put on 2 stone in his month in Argentina (Argentina now has a shortage of red wine & red meat). He has played rugby for the Indian national team. Don’t dare call him ugly. Chris has a degree in Geophysics & is a qualified snowboard instructor. Probably the most overqualified van driver on the planet. Not quite as hairy in the flesh as his picture would suggest. Disappears for all of January snow surfing every (& I mean every) year; even in 2013 with new baby in tow!..

James - life before Grog

James James has re-joined the Grog team after a stint at Valvolla & Crolla. Needless to say he is the man to aim tricky Italian wine questions at from now on.. James used to work in the grog retail shop (Dalkeith Road). Although (relative to the rest of us) still a youngster, he got 100% in his "Level 2" Wine exam (how annoying is that?). The girls say he is very easy on the eye when clean shaven, often shaves twice a day (not all over) & has regularly won staff "beard growing competitions".

"John" - life before Grog

General Sales Bod & DIY expert. Bought a state of the art racing bicycle which doesn't have brakes, pretty good in Holland methinks, Edinburgh?! ..strange he doesn't use it much. John is half sales half warehouse, but all man. John is also a thinking man's man. Only does three days a week so he can spend time thinking about doing DIY on his yacht in Monaco or Skiing in Avoriaz.

GREAT GROG WAREHOUSE
17 East Cromwell St, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH6 6HD.
TEL 0131 555 0222
Email richard@greatgrog.co.uk

Site maintained by Richard, hence is definitely not perfect!