People - like Lichine (Garrus) -Bertrand (du Temple) - releasing super premium wines make it easier for neighbours to raise prices + profitability Far, far more damage is done by producers selling wine at unsustainable low prices South Africa has suffered from the latter...

8 Classic Method English Sparkling Wines to Sip this Festive Season luxuriousmagazine.com/classic-method… by @TheWinebird #classicmethod

Just checked the numbers and we already have a whopping 412 events submitted to VirtualWineEvents.com for the month of December. And there's already 91 events submitted for January! Seeing more traffic coming in via Google too so if you have an event be sure to submit it!

Important news from WSTA this morning. VI-1 forms being scrapped on wine made in EU and UK. Statement here:   “Tucked away in the annexes to the agreement, there is good news for the wine sector and the UK’s 33 million wine drinkers. The deal means wine produced in either...

the UK or EU will not require the much feared, costly VI-1 certificate. Instead there will be a simplified import certificate with eminently sensible prospect of the information being made available electronically in future - something which the WSTA has been calling for to...

Listening to Priti Patel on Radio 4 condemning inflammatory right wing rhetoric is like listening to a dragon bemoaning arson.

Word of the Day is ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century): a presumptuous critic; one who loves to give opinions on matters they know very little about.

Laurence Fox: regularly attacks the NHS and its staff NHS Million: exists to support the NHS and its staff Please give us a follow and RT to show which one of us you support.

If we don’t look after our NHS staff we will lose them. In fact we already are. The NHS currently has over 100,000 vacancies, and that will only get worse if we don’t treat our amazing people better. We think a fair pay rise is the least they deserve. Please RT if you do too.

Ever wondered why some people react badly to #wine? Sophie ParkerThomson suspects a simple change to winemaking might solve the problem (and that sulphites are less to blame than we think) bit.ly/3weKofZ