Leon Stolarski Fine Wines feature some of the best wines that Languedoc, Roussillon, Provence and South-West France have to offer. Latterly, our list has expanded to include growers from the Loire Valley, Burgundy and Rhone.

We are registered as a Limited Company in the U.K. We are registered for V.A.T and all of our wines are imported directly from the growers in France, using the same transport companies as the major supermarkets and wine merchants. All wines are duty-paid on entry into the U.K and are kept in a secure storage facility, in an environment and temperature ideal for keeping fine wines.

Who we are

Leon Stolarski Fine Wines was founded in 2003. It came about as a result of a long held passion for wines, particularly those from the south of France, an area which is now gaining a much-deserved reputation for exciting and innovative wine making. We are Leon and Diane Stolarski and we have been happily married since 1985. We have two sons, Alex and Daniel, and our family home is near Nottingham. Leon is chief taster, buyer, importer, website designer, picker and packer, whilst Diane looks after the books and helps taste the wines - it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it!

Part of the thrill of our annual family pilgrimage to France had always been the opportunity to visit the cellars of the wine producers and to taste the wines, before buying, in the very place they are made. Although my "mastery" of the French language is limited, to say the least, it is always a treat to meet with the winemakers in their cellars or "caves" and talk about their wines, their methods of making them, the flavours, the "terroir" of their particular region…… they are invariably proud of these things and are happy for you to taste the wines before buying. Some of our wine discoveries have come from articles in books, newspapers and magazines, others from recommendations by the owners of the properties we rent, or local people. The information you need to find the place of production of a wine is almost invariably there on the label - all you need to do is look it up in the atlas! Of course, some of the more remote vineyards are not always that easy to find. But there's a certain eager anticipation in driving around deserted country roads, down bumpy tracks, or through narrow village streets, in search of your chosen producer. And it's possible to find superb wines that seldom see the light of day outside of their own region of production, let alone on the shelves of U.K shops.

As we left after our visit, I felt a real sense of excitement and decided there and then that it was time to do what I have always wanted to do - start my own wine business. M.Vanlancker's wines are extremely fairly priced, considering their quality. And I knew, as soon as I left, that we had stumbled across the opportunity to feature a range of wines that would be worthy of building a business around. These days, M. Vanlancker is known to us simply as Guy, since we have become good friends with he and his lovely wife, Isabelle.

And now, 12 years after that fateful visit, our list continues to include a full range of wines from Domaine La Combe Blanche, together with a hand-picked selection of wines from many other growers in which we have just as much faith. As our list continues to grow, it's content is governed by one simple philosophy - we only offer wines that we ourselves are happy to drink, from small, independent growers whose emphasis is on quality wine production - and whose wines you will rarely (if ever) find on the shelves of supermarkets or High Street chains. Indeed, the majority of our wines are unavailable elsewhere in the U.K.