About Us
Our Aims
• Stay pragmatic
Our brilliant business plan is not to have a fixed one. We constantly review everything we do and are as quick to drop duffers as to take on new ideas.
• Stay diverse
With a large regional footprint and a client basis as varied as wine itself, we carry a vast range at every price point
• Put something back
We organise our own charity events – fun ones like dinners and tastings, our motto is “Good works, good times.” We also do all we can to protect the environment and work hard to be a responsible company in every way.
• Educate
We aim to nurture sensible attitudes to drink by teaching the civilizing power of decent drinks consumed in good company.
• Innovate
Our MD has been the instigator of many of the key wine innovations in the UAE over the last 30 years. No mean feat! We continue apace with retail concessions, wine clubs, en primeur, exclusive and bespoke brands for clients, our own Burgundy. In short, we never stop coming up with new ideas.
• Involve suppliers
From winemaker visits and dinners to sophisticated supplier marketing support mechanisms, we aim to be the best at bringing maker and drinker closer.
About Nick Midwood
Nick has been in the wine trade all his working life.
Entering the UK wine trade in the mid 80s with Hawkins & Nurick, Bibendum and Barwell & Jones.
In 1993 Nick moved to Dubai, joining African & Eastern and was responsible for re-shaping their wine business and improving their pretty meagre wine range. With South Africa hitting the shores first, there then followed an 8-year period of ‘firsts’ for A&E including wines from Chile, New Zealand, Argentina and many others.
In 2000, following the sale of A&E by Unilever, Nick joined MMI.
Nick was responsible for many changes and innovations in his first year: Bordeaux primeurs, a complete revamp of the MMI wine list, the introduction of now household brands like Concha Y Toro, Antinori, Delegats, etc., and the setting up of a retail wine club, along with enlarging the wine team to better service clients and principals.
2005 saw Nick taking on the role of wine and champagne buyer at one of the world’s top airlines, Emirates, and enhanced the offering in every cabin. Working on long-term projects with the world’s top growers yielded an offering that is incomparable at 35,000 feet.
He also instigated what was, for an airline, a radical approach - buying Bordeaux classified growths as futures. This move has seen Emirates one of the world’s largest and most valuable cellars of Bordeaux.
Nick’s peerless knowledge of the wine world and airline industry has led to many new business opportunities and consulting roles with other major carriers over the last ten years.
In 2008, Nick conceptualised and drove “Le Clos” which opened at Terminal 3, Dubai International Airport. The region’s first fine wine and spirit shop, Le Clos went on to win two global travel retail awards for design, range and service in its first 12 months of operation.
In 2010 Liquid Solutions was developed as a vehicle for sales and marketing for a number of the world’s top wine and champagne brands – spearheaded by Société Jacques Bollinger Group – across the Middle East and Indian Ocean Isles.
We enter our second decade of operation with as much gusto and enthusiasm as we did our first.
Nick has been in the wine trade all his working life.
Entering the UK wine trade in the mid 80s with Hawkins & Nurick, Bibendum and Barwell & Jones.
In 1993 Nick moved to Dubai, joining African & Eastern and was responsible for re-shaping their wine business and improving their pretty meagre wine range. With South Africa hitting the shores first, there then followed an 8-year period of ‘firsts’ for A&E including wines from Chile, New Zealand, Argentina and many others.
In 2000, following the sale of A&E by Unilever, Nick joined MMI.
Nick was responsible for many changes and innovations in his first year: Bordeaux primeurs, a complete revamp of the MMI wine list, the introduction of now household brands like Concha Y Toro, Antinori, Delegats, etc., and the setting up of a retail wine club, along with enlarging the wine team to better service clients and principals.
2005 saw Nick taking on the role of wine and champagne buyer at one of the world’s top airlines, Emirates, and enhanced the offering in every cabin. Working on long-term projects with the world’s top growers yielded an offering that is incomparable at 35,000 feet.
He also instigated what was, for an airline, a radical approach - buying Bordeaux classified growths as futures. This move has seen Emirates one of the world’s largest and most valuable cellars of Bordeaux.
Nick’s peerless knowledge of the wine world and airline industry has led to many new business opportunities and consulting roles with other major carriers over the last ten years.
In 2008, Nick conceptualised and drove “Le Clos” which opened at Terminal 3, Dubai International Airport. The region’s first fine wine and spirit shop, Le Clos went on to win two global travel retail awards for design, range and service in its first 12 months of operation.
In 2010 Liquid Solutions was developed as a vehicle for sales and marketing for a number of the world’s top wine and champagne brands – spearheaded by Société Jacques Bollinger Group – across the Middle East and Indian Ocean Isles.
We enter our second decade of operation wtith as much gusto and enthusiasm as we did our first.
Nick has been in the wine trade all his working life.
Entering the UK wine trade in the mid 80s with Hawkins & Nurick, Bibendum and Barwell & Jones.
In 1993 Nick moved to Dubai, joining African & Eastern and was responsible for re-shaping their wine business and improving their pretty meagre wine range. With South Africa hitting the shores first, there then followed an 8-year period of ‘firsts’ for A&E including wines from Chile, New Zealand, Argentina and many others.
In 2000, following the sale of A&E by Unilever, Nick joined MMI.
Nick was responsible for many changes and innovations in his first year: Bordeaux primeurs, a complete revamp of the MMI wine list, the introduction of now household brands like Concha Y Toro, Antinori, Delegats, etc., and the setting up of a retail wine club, along with enlarging the wine team to better service clients and principals.
2005 saw Nick taking on the role of wine and champagne buyer at one of the world’s top airlines, Emirates, and enhanced the offering in every cabin. Working on long-term projects with the world’s top growers yielded an offering that is incomparable at 35,000 feet.
He also instigated what was, for an airline, a radical approach - buying Bordeaux classified growths as futures. This move has seen Emirates one of the world’s largest and most valuable cellars of Bordeaux.
Nick’s peerless knowledge of the wine world and airline industry has led to many new business opportunities and consulting roles with other major carriers over the last ten years.
In 2008, Nick conceptualised and drove “Le Clos” which opened at Terminal 3, Dubai International Airport. The region’s first fine wine and spirit shop, Le Clos went on to win two global travel retail awards for design, range and service in its first 12 months of operation.
In 2010 Liquid Solutions was developed as a vehicle for sales and marketing for a number of the world’s top wine and champagne brands – spearheaded by Société Jacques Bollinger Group – across the Middle East and Indian Ocean Isles.
We enter our second decade of operation wtith as much gusto and enthusiasm as we did our first.