Leamington Wine Company

It’s billed as a wine company and there’s certainly lots of well-​priced mid to top range grape based beverages in here. The first thing to arrest me when walking in though was the broad range of ales and beers to the left of the door. Breweries from near (Sadlers, Stourbridge) and far (Flying Dog, Maryland, USA) are represented and the prices at times are lower than you’d find in major supermarkets.
A lot of the beers are at the high end of the alcohol scale, and that’s how I like ‘em. Flying Dog’s Horn Dog at 10% is a powerful Barley Wine style beer with flavours galore. The crazed rhino-​cum-​canine creature that adorns the label is what you might turn into after a few of these. (Luckily, you know that craft beer is to be adored in moderation though, dontcha?)
I always treat my self to a basket of beers when I’m in Leamington for my hair-​do, and today is no exception.
By the long list of fruit flavours on the Sadlers’ Hop Bomb label, I was expecting a taste explosion that I didn’t quite get, though I can forgive them as they make my beer-​of-​the-​moment Mud City Stout, (brewed with cocoa and vanilla; once tasted it makes Guinness taste like the ‘Carling of the stouts’.) Curious IPA does hits the mark though with a balance of three different hops. Joining it in the basket is the amazing Belgian Cookie (Speculoos) Beer, and of course the mighty Anchor Porter from San Fran’s long standing brewery that your reviewer proudly shares his birth year with.
As well as wine and beer, there are cocktail supplies too like rhubarb, orange, vanilla and Angustora bitters, and miniatures of high end spirits like Grey Goose vodka and Hendrick’s gin so you can try a little before you buy a lottle.