Let's start with the bad news – nearly everyone involved in supplying wine to the UK market is confronting constrained supply, rising energy costs, hardening currencies against sterling, attacks by the media against binge drinking and an economic downturn. ...
While so much industry talk in the last few weeks has focused on how much the Government will add on wine this budget – will it be 15p, will it be 50p? – the emphasis on this one issue and this...
At a time when the issue of alcohol consumption is generating more heat than light in parts of the press it's been instructive to uncover some facts and figures that tell a rather different picture about what the public really think....
One of the crushing side-effects of giving up an annual wine guide and a weekly wine column – both, if you recall, called Superplonk– is that I no longer have to taste 10,000 supermarket wines a year and face those challenging...
