About us

If you’re new to Adnams Stores, or are just keen to learn a little more about what you can find in our stores and our online shop, then this page should help. If you'd like to find out more about Adnams plc, then this page will help, too.

What we do
The Adnams stores started out as two shops in the Suffolk coastal town of Southwold – both a slingshot away from our famous brewery. Southwold has always been a top holiday destination for visitors who loved our stores and our products, so it made sense that we developed a mail order business to send our wines, beers and items of hand-selected kitchenware to our customers by post. This worked brilliantly for around thirty years, and during that time, the economic landscape developed considerably. We wanted to branch out and expand from our home in Southwold.

It was in the summer of 2005 that we opened another store (on the beautiful North Norfolk coast at Holkham) and since then we’ve opened stores across a wide band of East Anglia. For a complete list of our store locations, click here.

During this time of retail expansion, our home delivery service has continued, strengthened by an e-commerce website, where we showcase our wine range and a small selection of kitchenware as well as Adnams-branded products, food and clothing.

Our wines
Our wine range has been shaped and reshaped over many years, as new countries and regions come on board, and as we discover new wineries and talented winemakers. The current range is selected by our Senior Buyer Alastair Marshall, who has been buying wines for Adnams for over 30 years, along with input from Rob Chase. Our buyers seek out distinctive wines from producers with a real passion for their craft. Each wine, as a natural product of its growing environment and the winemaking philosophy of its maker, carries its own story.

We have a core range of wines that make it on to our annual wine list, but these wines are supplemented by one-off purchases that we only have in stock for a month or two. Often these wines are from small producers who don’t have enough wine to supply us for a whole year, or we will buy a small parcel if the wine is of particular interest. Many of our wines are produced using organic or biodynamic methods (these are indicated by a green leaf symbol in our wine list).

Unlike our beers and spirits, which are all made in Southwold, we do not make any wines ourselves – we buy from winemakers from all over the world - some of which are bottled under our own label under the Adnams Selection range.

Our Kitchenware
Our website at present displays a small selection of our kitchenware range.

We also have a selection of Adnams clothing and merchandise on the website, ideal gifts for lovers of Adnams and Adnams’ beers and spirits. Click here to view our online kitchenware range.

Our Beer & Spirits
Adnams is famous as a producer of top quality beer and hand-crafted spirits. For more information on our beers, click here. Our spirits are made in our distillery that is housed in what was the brewery's old Copper House - hence the name Copper House Distillery. We're proud that many of our spirits have been awarded medals from prestigious competitions across the world. You can find out more about our spirits here.

Our web and mail order service
If you have any questions that are not answered on our website, please call the Adnams team on 01502 727222 Monday - Friday from 9am until 5pm, or send an email to customerservices@adnams.co.uk. Orders placed by the telephone and the website will take between 3-5 working days to be delivered to you by a third-party courier. For further information on delivery, please click here.