Meet Us
At The WineBarn we truly live, breathe and love our wines! Good German wine is everything to us and we strive to provide a personalised service founded in expert knowledge, quality advice and always a tailored recommendation. Whatever your wine needs you can be certain that we can help select the right wines for your taste.
We also offer a Rare and Antique Wines service, sourcing elusive investment wines from hidden cellars in Germany. Check our September 2023 rare wines list here. This is a very specialist field so please address any enquiries about rare or antique wines to Iris Ellmann; iris@thewinebarn.co.uk.
Our Team
Iris Ellmann
MD
Affectionately known as the “Queen of Grapes” Iris is our native German wine expert and loves nothing more than to be travelling through Germany discovering exciting new producers and delicious wines to share with you.
Favourite Wines: Riesling and Spätburgunder
Favourite Pastimes: Iris enjoys daily runs with Blu or anywhere she can take her trainers! She loves cooking and entertaining; travelling and meeting new people. She has to glue herself to the chair in the office or she would be off travelling through all the wine growing regions in the world.
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Angi Marton
Orders and Accounts
Hungarian born Angi is the team member who keeps us all in order - managing the office, wine deliveries, warehouse and accounts.
Favourite Wines: Kabinett, Auslese and Eiswein (she has a sweet tooth!).
Favourite Pastimes: Other than walking in the beautiful Hampshire hills Angi spends her free time meeting up with friends, reading a good book, or relaxing in front of a great movie - preferably a period drama featuring Colin Firth! Angi loves to cook Hungarian food and her favourite dish is Hungarian Wild Game Stew with a carrot sauce.
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Luca Ellmann-Houldsworth
New Business Administrator
With his previous experience with community relations and retail, Luca fits in perfectly to acquire new potential business partners to share our exciting and delicious wines with.
Favourite Wines: Fruity Rieslings
Favourite Pastimes: Luca enjoys fitness and skiing.
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Elliott Afentakis
Business Administrator
After finishing A-levels and helping out at various WineBarn events, Elliott seems keen to take up the challenge of learning more about German wine and how to promote it in the UK; especially to a younger audience. He will be involved in every part of the business, so he can develop a good understanding of what being a wine merchant entails.
Favourite Wines: Elliott adores the noble sweet wines which are not in his price range yet, but we are hopeful. His favourites are Bassermann-Jordan's 2018 Deidesheimer Hohenmorgen Riesling Auslese and St.Urbans-Hof's 2019 Ockfener Bockstein Riesling Auslese.
Favourite Pastimes: Inter-railing through Europe, social media and meeting new people.
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Blu
Head of Morale