THE ORKNEY WINE CLUB
To coincide with the 2025 Orkney Food & Drink Festival, we launched a service our customers had been suggesting for years: the Orkney Wine Club.
Since 1859 Kirkness & Gorie have been supplying top quality wine through our shop on Broad Street, Kirkwall. We also supply wine-lists to Orkney's best restaurants.
In 2025 we launched a new service: the Orkney Wine Club. Subscribe for a monthly selection of four interesting, high-quality bottles. Every four weeks we will select four wines that particularly excite us, and box them up complete with our tasting notes and food-matching suggestions. White, red, pink, orange, sparkling, maybe even a sweet wine occasionally - whatever has got us talking and clinking our glasses is what we will pass on to you!
Boxes will be ready for collection on the first working day of each month. We can arrange delivery within Kirkwall at no extra cost and elsewhere in Orkney for a modest charge.
Don't want to commit to a regular subscription? Click on the 'One-time purchase' option and give it a try, with no commitment.
If YOU’rE LOOKING FOR A WINE SELECTION FOR A SPECIFIC DATE - AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT, FOR INSTANCE - PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL US TO DISCUSS.
ALL WINE CLUB BOXES, INCLUDING One-time purchases, go out in tHE first week of the next month. WE WOULDN’T WANT YOU TO MISS A BIRTHDAY!
If you sign up to our monthly box, you can cancel at any time by phoning or emailing us. Until you cancel, you will continue to receive a box every four weeks.
This is not a money-off deal. We aim to select only high-quality wines, but always ones that offer excellent value for money. Your selection will be equal or higher in value to what you would expect to pay off the shelf.
The ‘Subscribe now’ button will take you to a special page on the website of our sister shop, The Longship. There you can sign up for either our monthly subscription or a one-off box. You can read more details and Terms and Conditions there.
FULL DETAILS OF THE NEXT MONTH’S WINES WILL BE POSTED HERE JUST AFTER THE BOXES ARE RELEASED. SUBSCRIBERS GET FIRST PEAK!
October 2025
Our first box. A mix of two familiar and two more unusual wines. Orchard Lane, Sauvignon Blanc (NZ); Chateau Grand Moulin, Cocobiroux Bourboulenc (France); Bodegas Agronavarra, Trashumante Tinto (Spain); Tabali, Pedrogoso Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile.) Plus reminiscences of a wine trip to New Zealand, and food matching ideas featuring chimichurri lamb burgers, patatas bravas and bourride fish stew.
November 2025
Carrying on as we started. Two popular and two rarer wines. Alba Verga, Albarino (Spain); Smalltown Vineyards, Sub Aqua Club (Australia, orange wine); Montes, Classic Merlot (Chile); I Muri, Negroamaro (Italy.) A brief introduction to orange wine, and praise for the funniest wine-themed film: Sideways (2004.)
December 2025
At Christmas many folk turn to the classics…so we turn to four unusual and experimental wines! Nieto Senetiner, Camila Sangria (a wine cocktail from Argentina); Xavier Roger, Le Chant des Roses Gewurtztraminer (France); Bodegas Ontanon, Rioja Viura Blanco (Spain); Producteurs Plaimont, Neo Mad (France.) Plus details of special Christmas wine and cheese deals for members.
January 2026
New year, new wine, New Zealand! Kuki Wines’ Riesling and Pinot Noir from Marlborough, and Sileni’s ‘The Lodge’ Chardonnay and Merlot from beautiful Hawkes Bay. Ten Things to Drink with Chardonnay feature (‘No 7 will blow your mind’) and a James Bond competition.
February 2026
Across the Tasman Sea to South Australia, and four wines from boutique producer Smalltown Vineyards: Next Big Thing Chardonnay, Good Luck Club Cabernet Sauvignon, Black Craft Shiraz, and Rag & Bone Riesling. And a personal introduction to the food and wine of Barossa Valley.
Watch this space to get rolling updates of what’s in each new box. If we have stock remaining (and we usually do) we’d be happy to make up any past box for you. Please contact us with your request.