Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Nov 2024
Sandwiched in between the joys of Black Friday and Advent Sunday, we bring you glad tidings with a festive guide to the changes in UK duty which will kick in at the end of Dry January. You may want
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Oct 2024
Ah, the Autumn Budget, and a new dawn? A 1p reduction in the duty on a pint of draught beer? Hooray! No doubt the pubs are getting the Bonfire Night bunting out. A horror show fit for
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Sep 2024
September is harvest month for us, so unsurprisingly it’s been a busy one. Please forgive this lengthy journal of pictures, which is really designed for you to scroll through when you have the t
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Aug 2024
A quarter of a century. Blimey. It’s the end of the summer holidays, our twentysomething children have left this week and we made the decision yesterday, Friday, to start the harvest t
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st Jul 2024
We hope you’re enjoying a fine summer. It’s been a scorcher in south west France this week. On Monday, we came on the train down to Spain on the hottest day of the year so far at home. Our thr
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Jun 2024
“So today, we are taking advantage of leaving the EU to announce the most radical simplification of alcohol duties for over 140 years.” Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech as Chancellor, October 2021.
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 31st May 2024
May is always a crazy month and this year’s no different. The weather has been less than clement of late, with rather a lot of rain, and we need the sun now before the all-important floweri
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 30th Apr 2024
For this month’s missive we’re turning our attention to our great friend Tom Gilbey and his fantastic achievement of running the London Marathon while blind tasting and guessing 25 different wines
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 13th Apr 2024
This won't be for everyone but our infamous Bordeaux weather and crop report for 2023 was published this morning on Jancis Robinson's fine wine website and by Liv-ex, the fine wine marketplace.Here
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Posted by Gavin Quinney on 29th Mar 2024
Good Friday is one of those strange days when it’s a day off in the UK but not a holiday in France – like Boxing Day in fact. A sensible compromise might be for us to take half a day off.Angela is
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