Those present consumed a whopping 117 bottles of Gusbourne Blanc de Blancs 2014, which is sold for around £65 a bottle. / In total, the bill came to an unbelievable £7,897!
THE cost of a boozy Brexit party held at Number 10 as Covid was emerging has finally been revealed following a lengthy court fight.
English wine producers look set to pass up the chance to sell wine by the pint, despite a triumphant announcement from the government that it had given them the “Brexit freedom” to do so.
The poet Robert Burns imagined a man toasting his lover with a “pint o’ wine”, and Winston Churchill was perhaps the most famous proponent of the pint bottle for champagne. Now, Rishi Sunak’s government has spied a “Brexit opportunity” to legalise the sale of wine by the pint once more – if it can persuade anyone to make the bottles.
The Tories have been criticised for boasting about post-Brexit freedoms that mean the UK can sell pints of wine while the economy is "on its knees" and public services "at breaking point".
Industry experts are warning that wines are ‘up £3 a bottle’ since the UK’s departure from the bloc.
"The UK used to be one of the best places in the world to drink wine. Now it is fast becoming one of the worst."
Wine, the pint bottle and European standards
23/11/2023
Policymakers in the UK have to adjust to the reality of no longer setting international standards. The UK no longer offers markets of bulk. Nor does it have recognised high standards that others are keen to adopt.
Scotland's licensed trade sector has condemned sweeping alcohol tax changes brought in today under the Conservatives "Brexit Pub Guarantee" as "naive and fanciful".
New changes to alcohol duty in the UK take effect today, with some drinks set to see their biggest price increase in almost 50 years.
Most food companies feel leaving the European Union has affected operations while many said COVID-19 didn’t impact their ability to meet regulatory requirements, according to a survey.
Gibraltar struggles with post-Brexit limbo
25/01/2023
Uncertain Brexit negotiations over a contested border, a troubled past, debates over sovereignty. It might sound familiar, but we're not talking about Northern Ireland.
Iain Overton examines the lack of consequences for the Brexiters that promised us sunny uplands.
The director of a wine merchant has eviscerated Jacob Rees Mogg on BBC Question Time, branding complications in importing and exporting wine due to Brexit red tape as a “joke”.
Why the Question Time wine merchant who shocked Rees-Mogg was right about the Brexit damage to his industry
18/12/2022
Leaving the EU has left the wine import/export business with a shocking hangover.
"Around half of the fiscal hole, and the political instability that comes with that, is down to Brexit," John Springford of the Centre for European Reform.
Food production in the UK is slowing down and some farms are shrinking. Many farmers say they’re struggling to cope.
The government doesn’t want to be held to account for Brexit and its real effects – and it’s clear why!
08/10/2022
This week I was contacted by a retired CEO of a major wine wholesaler. They, unbeknownst to me, had asked their local MP John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset) if he thought it was acceptable that my wine business had been obliged to open a site in the EU to mitigate Brexit costs.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted that cutting public services was a prime reason for Brexit.
'We are not the envy of the world anymore, we are the crackpot aunty in the corner that everyone laughs at.'
A British wholesaler who supplies the UK retail market is moving his business to the South of France in order to mitigate Brexit redtape, which he says has cost his business £150,000.
Daniel Lambert, who supplies M&S, Waitrose and 300 independent retailers, to set up in France after £150,000 hole in revenue.
Extra import controls will be ‘impossible’ for small businesses, says food industry chief.
French champagne makers say they have no plans to sell UK government’s Brexit pint bottles
05/02/2022
Government’s Brexit push to bring back Winston Churchill’s favourite champagne measure met with indifference.
Liz Truss faces backlash on Australia trip over plans to hike UK taxes on wine from Down Under
21/01/2022
Foreign secretary Liz Truss is facing a backlash from Australian wine producers during her trip Down Under, amid complaints that any benefits from a post-Brexit trade deal will be more than wiped out by proposed changes to UK taxes on alcohol.