Gourmet Classic Cooking Wines & Vinegars Brochure 2026

Discover the Gourmet Classic Cooking Wines & Vinegars 2026 brochure to see our premium range of cooking Wines & Vinegars and foodservice ingredients. Designed for professional chefs, restaurants, hotels, caterers, commercial kitchens and food manufacturers throughout the UK, our products deliver consistent quality, exceptional flavour and reliable performance.

ABOUT US

Since 1998 Gourmet Classic has championed the food service industry.

Serving Better is more than just our strapline, It underpins our approach and our

commitment to delivering the best products to chefs through the UK and the World.

We continue to supply wholesalers with around 100,000 Litres of cooking wine a week.

Vinegars – 2L PET Bottles

2L PET Bottles – 14 cases per layer x 4 layers = 56 cases per pallet

Balsamic Glaze – 500ml PET Bottles

500ml Balsamic Glaze
20 cases per layer x 4 layers = 80 cases per pallet 

 Vinegars – 5L Jerry Cans

5L Jerry Cans – 21 cases per layer x 3 layers = 63 cases per pallet 

4.8% Vol. Cooking Wines

FOUR TIMES STRONGER

Specialist 0% Cooking Wines,

4.8% Vol. Fortified Cooking Wines & 25% Vol. Cooking Brandy

Commercial Information

Cooking Beer & Cider, Cold Brew Coffee, & Cooking Mulled Wine

Commercial Information

Public Sector 1.2% Vol. Cooking Wines,

1.2% Vol. Fortified Cooking Wines & 10% Vol. Cooking Brandy

Commercial Information

USP – Made using Reverse Osmosis Water

Vinegars – Unique Selling Points

After 27 years Gourmet Classic, the inventors of cooking wine in the UK, are breaking into the vinegar market for food service. Gourmet Classic have ordered a fully automatic jerry can filling line from a UK manufacturer and have even partnered with a UK injection moulding company to blow our own PET plastic bottles in 2 and 5 litre. Along with the cheaper jerry can we can compete with anyone else in this market.

Managing Director Angus I’Anson said in an interview, “Gourmet Classic are bigger and better than any cooking wine company in the UK and can buy in bulk and pack faster than anyone else in the vinegar market. This will bring cost savings which we will pass onto the customer. We have 9 mainstream vinegars available in 2 different types of packaging, a 2 litre PET bottle and a 5 litre jerry can. We’re very excited about this new venture and look forward to becoming an even stronger partner to our customers.”

We also take extra care in the quality of water used in blending and dilution activities. Our water undergoes Reverse Osmosis treatment making it perfect as an ingredient in liquid products.

Trading standards compliant on food labelling

BRCGS for Food Safety AA standard for UK Food Manufacturing

Red Wine Vinegar

Red Wine vinegar has a bold tangy taste with hints of fruitiness and has multiple uses.

Pickling

Marinades and Tenderising

Creating Pan Sauces

Braising Liquid

Roasting Vegetables

Fruit Based Sauces

Salad Dressings

Mignonette Sauce for Oysters

Suggested Uses

Our Vinegar Range

White Wine Vinegar

White wine vinegar is a multi-use condiment and kitchen staple. It has a rounded, mellow taste with a complex flavour and a variety of applications in the kitchen.

Mayonnaise

Hollandaise

Sweet & Sour Oriental Sauces

Fish Dishes

Satays

Pavlovas

Slow Poaching

Court-boullion

Malt Vinegar

Malt vinegar is a distinctive, malty, tangy British product popular as a condiment for fish & chips, but a versatile vinegar that has many other uses in the kitchen.

Marinades & Glazes

Pickles & Pickling

Chutneys

Flavour Enhancement

Distilled Malt Vinegar

Distilled malt vinegar is a clear, slightly acidic liquid made by fermenting barley-based alcohol that is filtered to remove the colour, becoming transparent, and give the vinegar a milder flavour.

Poached Eggs

Pickling Vegetables

Pickled Watermelon & Melon Rind

Rapsberry & Fruit-Flavoured Vinegars

Seafood Pickles:

Cockles, Mussels & Octopus

Mild Flavour Enhancer

Spirit Vinegar

Spirit vinegar is made from fermented molasses, the alcohol is converted into acetic acid, which is colourless with acetic/vinous flavour and aroma.

Pickles & Chutneys

Preserving

Buttermilk Replacement

Baking Raising Agent

Flavour Balance

Wilted Vegetables Reviving

Sterilising Food Products

Suggested Uses

Our Vinegar Range

Cider Vinegar

Cider vinegar is a liquid made from fermented apples with enough acidity to break down the cell walls on meats and tougher vegetables. It also has many other uses, such as dietary and health benefits.

Flavour Enhancer

Dressings & Marinades

Soups & Stews

BBQ Sauces

Savoury Jams & Glazes

Baking to Curdle & Raising Agent

Add to Bone Broth to Extract Nutrients

Vegan Cheese Sauces

Balsamic Vinegar

Balsamic vinegar is a dark, concentrated, intensely flavoured vinegar made from grape must, freshly crushed grape juice skins, seeds and stems that produce the distinctive flavour.

Salad Dressings & Pasta Enhancer

Risotto

Sweet Glazes

Roasted Meats & Grill Marinades

Dips & Cold Sauces

Ice Cream Condiment

Cocktails

Braised Red Cabbage

Fish, Meat & Vegetables

Balsamic Glaze

A balsamic glaze is traditionally a balsamic reduction which is made from reducing balsamic vinegar (sour) with some brown sugar until a syrup is achieved. A balsamic glaze should be predominantly sweet and sour.

Drizzle over Roasted Vegetables

Add to Salad Dressings

Use in Sodas & Cocktails

Brush over Poultry

Enhance Tomato Salads

Sweet Pickling Liquor – White

Use Gourmet Classic Sweet Pickling Liquor for pickling vegetables to preserve or to flavour items on a dish.

Spiced watermelon rinds

Mint and dill cucumber pickle

Orientale pickled mooli white radish

Danish pickled mackerel

Fish & seafood ceviche

Roll mops & soused herrings

Pickled fruits such as Pineapple & Mango

Pickled samphire

25% Liquor to Produce

Our Pickling Range

Sweet Pickling Liquor – Red

Use Gourmet Classic Sweet Pickling Liquor for pickling vegetables to preserve or to flavour items on a dish.

Sweet pickled red onions

Pickled red cabbage, apple, sultana & ginger

Sweet pickled Italian style bresaola

Baby beet in sweet red wine pickle

Pickled kielbasa

Spiced pickled offal

Cinnamon & clove apples

Pickled pears in sweet red wine

Cured and pickled salmon gravalax

25% Liquor to Produce

Brick Lane Chutney Liquor

Uses a simple base mix which can be used to make unique chutneys and relishes that will always be consistent with the use of the base mix, which has a long shelf life and is easy to use.

Savoury & sweet chutneys

Relishes

Piccalilli

Sandwich chutneys

Cold & hot spiced Asian vegetable chutneys

50% Liquor to Produce

Cooking Wines – Unique Selling Points

Gourmet Classic offers the only 4.8% Vol. cooking wine in the UK.

This product is FOUR TIMES STRONGER than any other product on the market.

Gourmet Classic has the largest range of cooking wines for sale in the UK.

Including fortified cooking wines, cooking spirits, cooking beers, cooking cider and cooking mulled wine

Trading standards compliant on food labelling BRC AA standard for UK Food Manufacturing

Gourmet Classic supply industry specific product lines such as 0% Vol. cooking wine which are suitable for religious culture and areas of safety: oil rigs, etc.

USP – Four Times Stronger

4.8% Vol. Cooking Wines

FOUR TIMES STRONGER

Our Product Range

The benefit of cooking with a Cabernet Sauvignon (the king of wines) is the added value on the menu description “A slow roasted oxtail in a Cabernet Sauvignon jus”

The benefit of cooking with a Chardonnay wine is the added value on the menu description.

“A pan-fried hake in a Chardonnay beurre blanc”

Where would pasta be without a wine sauce to flavour a Ragu Bolognaise, Cacciatore and the classic Italian clams, mussels and seafood dish – Vongole

Adding wine to your cooking and to your sauces is added flavour, added umami. Where would these dishes be without wine:

Coq Au Vin (Chicken and Wine), Beef Bourguignon (Beef and Wine)

7010-262 – 2 x 5L             7010-242 – 4 x 3L

Cabernet Sauvignon 4.8% Vol.

7020-262 – 2 x 5L             7020-242 – 4 x 3L

Chardonnay 4.8% Vol

7036-262 – 2 x 5L

Italian White 4.8% Vol.

7000-242 – 4 x 3L          7000-262 – 2 x 5L          7000-351 – 1 x 10L

Cooking Wine White 4.8% Vol.

7035-262 – 2 x 5L

Italian Red 4.8% Vol.

7005-351 – 1 x 10L          7005-262 – 2 x 5L          7005-242 – 4 x 3L

Cooking Wine Red 4.8% Vol.

Specialist 0% Cooking Wines,

4.8% Vol. Fortified Cooking Wines & 25% Vol. Cooking Brandy

Our Product Range

7001-262 – 2 x 5L

Cooking Airen Blanco 0% Vol.

7006-262 – 2 x 5L

Cooking Tempranillo 0% Vol.

If you are not allowed alcohol in such places as oil rigs and hospitals, but chef still wants the benefit of cooking with wine, you need the best low temperature vacuum science to remove only the alcohol

7505-242 – 4 x 3L

Fortified Cooking Wine Madeira 4.8% Vol.

7500-242 – 4 x 3L

Fortified Cooking Wine Port 4.8% Vol.

A cooking port and madeira would traditionally be used with stronger game meats or fish.

Stronger flavoured food requires a stronger flavoured wine.

And not forgetting alcohol drenched desserts, from tiramisu to sherry trifle

7601-242 – 4 x 3L

Cooking Brandy 25% Vol.

For cooking brandy recipes you only need to look in your grandmothers cookbooks.

Christmas pudding, brandy butter, steak Diane sauce.

Our Product Range

8620-262 – 2 x 5L

Cooking Cider 4.2% Vol.

8600-262 – 2 x 5L

Cooking IPA 3.5% Vol.

Cooking Beer & Cider, Cold Brew Coffee, & Cooking Mulled Wine

Steak and ale pie, beer battered cod, marinades, tendering meats. British stews, puddings and cakes.

7516-351 – 1 x 10L

Cold Brew Coffee

Cider fermented apples provide the umami for the best ham and pork dishes.  Marinade and tenderizing meats.  Cider batter for West Country desserts.  Dundt and pound cakes

Cold Brew Coffee is produced when ground coffee beans and brewed in cold water for 12 hours or more and then cold filtered for long lasting freshness.  A modern twist and a healthy alternative to energy drinks.  Today’s consumers have a desire for zero sugar and zero calories with a natural boost.

Simply pour over ice.  An excellent base for coffee cocktails such as espresso martini.

8700-242 – 4 x 3L                   8700-242 – 1 x 10L

Cooking Mulled Wine 4.8% Vol.

A mulled wine is a traditional winter warmer which would normally have a whole orange with cloves in it and a bundle of cinnamon sticks in a pan giving off the most amazing aroma.

Public Sector 1.2% Vol. Cooking Wines,

1.2% Vol. Fortified Cooking Wines & 10% Vol. Cooking Brandy

Our Product Range

7357-262 – 2 x 5L             7357-351 – 1 x 10L

Monte Bello Cooking Wine Red 1.2% Vol.

7358-351 – 1 x 10L           7358-262 – 2 x 5L

Monte Bello Cooking Wine White 1.2% Vol.

Monte Bello cooking wines were designed for the public sector catering venues that are very cost sensitive. 90% of this product is made

with the very best wine concentrates that the industry can provide and not simply flavoured.

7611-242 – 4 x 3L

Cooking Brandy 10% Vol.

For cooking brandy recipes you only need to look in your grandmothers cookbooks.

Christmas pudding, brandy butter, steak Diane sauce.

7501-262 – 2 x 5L

Fortified Cooking Wine Port 1.2% Vol.

7506-262 – 2 x 5L

Fortified Cooking Wine Madeira 1.2% Vol.

A cooking port and madeira would traditionally be used with stronger game meats or fish.

Stronger flavoured food requires a stronger flavoured wine.

And not forgetting alcohol drenched desserts, from tiramisu to sherry trifle