So the break up letter’s been delivered. This week Theresa May, Prime Minister of the UK, sent her attaché off to Brussels to formally trigger Brexit. It’s been a funny week where feelings of the week of the referendum came flooding back, but you can’t dwell on stuff like that, we move on and try …
Entry for MWWC #28: Smile Until about two weeks ago I’d drafted a completely different entry to this month’s Monthly Wine Writers’ Challenge. The topic is “smile”. I’d written some guff about press trips and how amazing it was we get to do them. I’d just arrived back from 3 days in …
I’ve seen this article this morning from Off Licence News. Long and short of it is that they’ve interviewed the head buyer for Conviviality Brands and he’s said that Brexit issues and uncertainty is going to open the door for wines from other parts of the world, including China. As much as I disagree with …
As the UK digests the fallout from Brexit, a lot of wine writers and industry experts have started thinking about what it means us wine-o’s and our drinking habits. One of the most immediate effects is that the British Pound is being annihilated on the FX markets, and anything imported into the country is getting …
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We all went to the polls last week, in the UK, to answer if we wanted to remain in the European Union or do we want to leave and go our own way? The “Leavers” won by a slim 52% to 48% margin of victory. Personally I was gutted, I was wandering round in a …
