Red Squirrel's new frontiers

Very, very different from Corney and Barrow, the pukka, royal-warranted wine merchant described yesterday by Julia, is Red Squirrel, a typical member of the new breed of wine importers I described recently in A bunch of indies. Founded in London as an online retailer and specialist Ligurian importer in 2012, Red Squirrel now represent nearly 50 producers from all over the world, as exotic and esoteric as possible. Their recent tasting under the arches of Holborn Viaduct in London, site of the Oddbins that was once managed by wine writer Sarah Ahmed and is now The Winemakers Guild...