SA Wines Online, Ltd.

Because of our close relationships with the vineyards whose wines we offer, and because we are a small team who enjoy wine and working together, we strive to offer you a more personal approach to your internet wine shopping experience. The SA Wines Online Team Kevin GallagherKevin Gallagher Founder and Managing Director Kevin grew up in Durban and went to school in Pietermaritzburg. After school he attended the University of Natal where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. After completing his time with the SA Army he left SA for London for a typical two year working holiday. Things didn’t quite go to plan and instead of returning to SA he went from London to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) working on the financial side of the international chemical construction industry. After completion of the job in Zimbabwe he transferred to Germany and a few years later arrived in London settling permanently in 1975. Kevin worked as European Finance Director for a large South African group until 2000 which was when he started to develop SA Wines Online. He’d wanted to be involved in the SA / UK wine trade for a considerable time but the idea of a dedicated SA wine shop wasn’t viable – then came the Internet and the possibility of having a shop that covered the whole country and suddenly the economics made sense. It was time to make the idea a reality and SA Wines Online was born. After a slow start, as Internet shopping was a very new idea and not generally accepted, the company has grown by an average of 100% per year to its present position of having, by a large margin, the biggest range of fine South African wines in the U K. Kevin is a very keen Springbok and Natal Sharks rugby supporter and takes every opportunity on his regular visits to South Africa and the Cape to watch rugby ,and any other sport that happens to be on – this is in addition to the onerous role of travelling around the Winelands looking for new wines and keeping up with our existing suppliers.