Wine
More than 270 producers, with much of our range available to the on-trade only through us. House pour up to fine wine.
Wholesale Drinks Supplier for Hotels
Your bar, your restaurant, room service and your function rooms, supplied on one order and one invoice. We cover every drinks category, and our wine team is the strongest in the UK on-trade.
A drinks supplier that understands how hotels trade
Matthew Clark Bibendum is one of the UK's largest drinks suppliers to hospitality. We brought Matthew Clark's national distribution network together with Bibendum's wine expertise, and we're part of C&C Group. For a hotel, that means wine, beer, cider, spirits and soft drinks from a single wholesale drinks supplier, with no category treated as an afterthought.
We understand that your hotel is really several venues sharing a postcode. The bar sells differently from the restaurant, room service has economics of its own, and a function suite can turn over more across one weekend than the rest of the property manages in a fortnight. Each one needs a drinks range that suits it, and all of them need to arrive on the same lorry.
We've supplied UK hotels for decades, from independent properties to some of the largest groups in the country. Our wine team builds hotel wine lists that sell rather than sit, our category specialists keep the back bar and the draught range current, and your account manager knows which of your outlets is carrying the weight this season. The job we're doing is helping you serve more drinks, and better ones.
With a large portfolio spread across the UK, MCB have been the only wholesaler that have been able to demonstrate the ability to serve each of our hotels directly. With depots across the country, each hotel has a delivery schedule that works for them without the need for emergency orders. The team have always been great in supporting us with group wide projects, such rolling out beverage stocking policies or helping us drive wine revenue with curated lists specifically for our top performing hotels.
A range that works across your outlets
A hotel bar wants something different from the restaurant, and both want something different again from the function suite. We supply hotels of every size, from single properties to national groups, and we build the range around the way your outlets actually trade.
Spirits
Thousands of lines at every price point, from back bar standards to rare and collectable bottles.
Beer and Cider
Draught, keg, cask and packaged, backed by C&C Group's own brands.
Soft Drinks and Mixers
Carbonates, juices and premium mixers for every outlet.
Low and No
Alcohol free beer, wine and spirits, so every guest has a proper choice.
Our wine team, working with yours
Wine has been at the centre of this business for decades. Our specialists will build you a list from scratch, or look over the one you have and suggest a few changes. Whichever suits you.
We also run training in house. Our WSET-accredited trainers work with hotel teams on the range they're pouring, shaped around what your staff need.
More than delivery
A drinks supplier should do more than move stock into your cellar. We help you what to put on the menu, then keep the ordering simple enough that you can stop thinking about it.
Decisions backed by data
We have our own insight team, and customers tell us it's one of the reasons they stay. Market and category data can help you decide what to list, how to price it and where demand is heading. Your account manager can talk you through what's available for your business.
Ordering that stays out of your way
One order covers every category across your property, on set delivery days, reconciling to a single invoice. Our online ordering system is open whenever you are, and a dedicated account manager looks after your venue. We will work with the procurement systems you already have in place.
Sustainability
We're part of C&C Group, whose emissions targets are validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. If you report against supplier standards, the figures are published and we can pull what you need.
Let's talk about your drinks offering
Open a trade account to start buying, or get in touch if you'd rather talk it through first.