Our Story

With 33 years in the wine trade, we offer a passionate and educated collection of wines. Charles Steevenson established the original company in 1987, starting in a small high street wine shop in Tavistock, Devon, and grew the the company to one of the best leading and respected wine merchant wholesalers in the south west of England. We now import wines from around the globe and only pick quality wines from what we think are the best producers and winemakers from around the world.

In 2020, Charles sold the company to his Operations Manager Michael McGarry who worked for Charles a decade before taking over. The company has now been rebranded as Sovereign Wines and supplies some of the finest hotels and restaurants in the south west of England, all of which are distributed from our warehouse in Tavistock. We work closely with all our customers to achieve the perfect complement of wines.  

We thoroughly believe in the following 3 key points which is our ethos of the business.

 

1. Quality - We source products that we believe are of the highest quality, and we regularly check vintages and taste compare to maintain our standards.

2. Service Excellence - We have many years experience in the industry to draw on and can offer advice on all aspects of your business development when it comes to 'on' and 'off-trade' sales.

3. Personal Connection - We like to get to know our customers so we can tailor our services to their needs - and we love getting to know who we are working with!

 

Our retail shop is within our warehouse in Tavistock and is open Monday to Saturday. You are more than welcome to visit us to browse, chat about all things wine or get advice on pairing wine and food for special events.