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About us

VertuVin is a vibrant new company established to deliver market driven, sustainable, diligent wine solutions to address the challenges faced by the wine trade in the 21st Century.

Stephen Cronk - Managing Director and Founding Partner

Stephen has been passionate about wine from an early age and on leaving university in 1985 starting working for a London based wine importer. Since those early days he has worked in various sales and marketing roles in the wine trade and also in the communications industry, where he was responsible for managing strategic customer relationships with a variety of international blue chip clients. He formed VertuVin in 2009 with his old friend Tom Warner and has since moved to France (with his wife and three children) from where he runs the business.

Tom Warner - Founding Partner

Tom was educated in both England and France and has been in the wine business since 1984, during which he has successfully developed international markets for French wine producers. He is the International Commercial Director for a privately owned estate with vineyards in the South of France and in Chile and is responsible for sales in 17 countries.

The VertuVin brand ethos

VertuVin has a simple ethos, which is that any wines we represent are in our portfolio by Virtue of their intrinsic quality.

What sets us apart is that we do not just represent our wine growers – we work hard with them and their business model to ensure that their wines are as marketable as possible – and we then make these wines available to a wider and more discerning audience than would otherwise be the case.

Wine Awards

2009 Decanter World Wine Awards (for the Roussanne 2008) "Floral aromatic buttery toast, hints of tropical fruit. Clean fruit, soft, white flowers with a hint of well-integrated oak."

Robert Parker welcomed Stéphane Vedeau's arrival in the Rhone and commented that Stéphane had made "an impressive impression with his efforts in both his first vintages" and awarded his "stunning" La Ferme du Mont Châteauneuf du Pape 2007 with 96 points.

Le Guide Hachette rated Stéphane‘s La Ferme du Mont Côtes du Rhône "Première Côte" 2007 wines as one to drink in 2009 by awarding it 3 Stars and placing it as one of the best value wines to drink at under €10

Jancis Robinson declared the La Ferme du Mont Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2007 as "a majestic wine" and rated it in her top three Châteauneuf-du Papes for 2007 – a staggering feat considering that many of the more recognized names are selling at several times the price. Score 19/20 Points.

Decanter places Château Miraval, Rosé 2008 Côtes de Provence in their Top 20 Provence Rosés and describes it as a "delicious wine with flavours of rose and cherry, good depth". Highly recommended.

Decanter Magazine highly rated Stéphane’s J. Boutin Hermitage 2006, describing it as "pure blackcurrant nose and the same on the palate. Very youthful, focused, pure. Will develop very well. Big, generous finish. Drink from 2012". 16.6 points. Highly recommended.

Jancis Robinson really rates James Kinglake's AOC Limoux L'Etoile de Begude from the high altitude (350m) vineyards in southwest Languedoc as "a particularly fine, refreshing Chardonnay. The Kinglakes are making some very fine special bottlings such as L'Étoile, which is a bargain alternative to Chassagne..."

Château La Mascaronne Rosé 2008 Côtes de Provence "very good balance, elegant, with some weight. Very well made and very well judged. Good finish." Recommended

Only two St Joseph wines have received the top 2 star rating in the 2010 Guide Hachette and Stéphane Vedeau’s J. Boutin St Joseph "Parcelle de Jean" 2006 is one of them. "A complex aromatic palette with tapenade, morello cherry and stewed red fruit overtones, a good balance with a nice broadness and complexity from the barrel aging. This bottle is perfect now but will develop even more with time".

Château La Mascaronne Rosé 2008 Côtes de Provence "is a blend of Cinsault and Grenache Blanc and has a vivid pink with a dusty tomato nose. The fruit is much more rounded in the mouth - almost plumy. 13.5%". Score 15/20 Points

"An exciting new producer, Verus, a triumvirate of particularly ambitious young winemaking friends, has produced a range of thrillingly pure white wine varietals in a handsome screwcapped bottle. I can recommend all of them as beautifully made, precise varietal expressions, and have chosen the steely, firm Furmint as the wine that stood out for me"