The Bottleneck

Award winning Wine Merchant independently owned by Chris & Lin Beckett since 1988. We sell wines from around the world & Kent, UK Craft Beers & Spirits.

We love wine between us we have been selling wines for over 87 years. We have visited vineyards all over the world we have met winemakers from all over the world. In 1988 we won the UK Off Licence of the Year competition. Since then we have won & been runners up in many wine trade competitions. We sell wines from £5. 35 to £135 bottle we don't sell anything that we don't have faith in! There is £2. 16 duty on a bottle of wine plus 42p VAT on top of the duty then a further 20% VAT on the cost of the bottle wine so it is hard to find drinkable wine under £5. 53 a bottle! We have a nice range of Port, Sherries & Madeira. We sell 50 Kent Beers Kent Ciders & Kent Wines. We are proud to have sold wine, beers, ciders & spirits in Broadstairs for 29 years.