Tanners is family-owned, family-run and resolutely independent. It is run by James Tanner (Managing Director), who is the fourth generation of the family to work in the company. The firm employs in excess of 100 people with the majority split between its distinctive, black & white headquarters in Shrewsbury and its distribution depot in Wales.
Approximately half Tanners’ sales are to quality-minded hotels and restaurants and half to private clients and corporate customers such as universities, colleges and companies – not only locally but countrywide too.
Good traditional service is what Tanners is about, but ‘traditional’ in the best sense of the word. We find it easier to deliver this with a core of long-serving staff and we are lucky in this respect: Tanners currently have 12 members of staff who will have completed 30 years with the firm!
The careful selection of wines is of paramount importance at Tanners. James Tanner and Stephen Crosland have done the buying together now for 15 years, and are helped in their endeavours to travel and taste as widely as possible by Simon Jones, Adrian Patterson and Robert Boutflower. We devote a lot of time to seeing our suppliers either in Shrewsbury or abroad since the best producers have to be convinced that their wine will end up with customers who will appreciate it. Quantities available are often limited and in this respect a firm the size of Tanners has a distinct advantage over bigger enterprises.
We are renowned for our excellent range of Tanners House Wines (our own labelled products), and they are hugely popular with our customers. We put the utmost effort into finding what we deem to be the best before we will put our name on the label. Toasty champagnes, juicy claret and fine white burgundy, nutty sherries, rich ports, peaty whisky and superb full strength gin all bear the Tanners name.
Emma Pook
Emma Ward
Stephen Crosland
John Melhuish
Tanners Wines
Robert Boutflower
James Tanner
Alison Chadwick
