Who We Are
About Nick Dobson Wines
Nick Dobson Wines was founded at the end of 2002 by
Nick Dobson, whose goal was to create a mail-order business selling
wines from the wine regions he loved best of all (southern Burgundy,
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). Running his own wine business
was a career-change for Nick, who is a graduate of Loughborough University,
where he read Electronics, & also of Henley Management College, where
he gained an MBA. Nick is also a French-speaker. His early working
life was spent in the consumer electronics industry, initially in
technical roles, but later moving into management, with experience
in an International Business Environment (Europe, mainly Switzerland,
and India). Nick eventually stood aside from the corporate world &
started Nick Dobson Wines as fulfilment of a long-held desire to combine
his passion for wine with the independence of running his own business.
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| Nick specialises mainly in wines from smaller
family producers, who generally make wines of character and individuality,
and sells principally to private clients, offering easy access to his
full range of wines by mail order via the company website. The Company
started with French wines, and these were supplemented firstly with German,
then Swiss, and later the Austrian ranges. Whilst these remain the core
of the business, Nick has also recently added small ranges from Italy,
Portugal, Hungary, and more recently Israel. Despite its relatively short
life, Nick Dobson Wines has gained a positive reputation amongst the community
of wine journalists and commentators, and is known for having some of
the most comprehensive ranges of Beaujolais, Swiss and Austrian wines
in the UK. In the summer of 2009, Nick Dobson Wines was short-listed for
the 'Online Merchant of the Year' category in the Decanter Retailer of
the Year Awards. Nick is very hands-on, and does everything in the business
himself, from researching and visiting growers, selecting and importing
the wines, right through to website design and maintenance, taking orders,
and managing all the logistics, which is now based in a bonded warehouse
in east London. Nick takes pride in the very high levels of customer service
provided. Although Nick has a program of constant improvement in the range
and product offering, he does not wish to grow the business to the point
where it would cease to be manageable within the family, or to significantly
expand the ranges currently offered, as this would risk changing the specialist
nature of the business. Nick is married with one son, and apart from wine,
his other interests include travel, (especially France, Spain, & Switzerland),
food/cooking, classical music, and chess. |
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