Our Story

We opened Bottega Caruso back in 2018, an Italian restaurant and shop in Margate.

The idea was always to bring wonderful produce from our family and friends back in Campania and share it here in the UK. We’ve been importing various foodstuffs from our family and friends since then.

But wine… You’re sat in a vineyard up a mountain, sipping the most remarkable wine you’ve ever tried, the winemaker showing you the grapes and barrels and telling you how he left his old life behind 30 years ago to just make this one bottle of perfect wine, in perfect harmony with nature and and the moon and the stars. You want to buy it all, bring it back and show it to everyone, try somehow to capture that magical moment.

Well it’s been quite the journey, but now we’re doing it. Importing wonderful wines from four (to begin with) wonderful wineries. Wines that we’ve drank in the fields and fallen in love with.