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Brexit: The opera continues
As the Brexit deadline approaches, the UK wine industry and its EU supply partners are facing two potentially costly future trading expenses regarding the post-Brexit trading world: regulation and tariffs
Here we are again. Veteran observers…

What price for Brexit?
UK Landscapes 2019 reveals a definite Remain-ish tinge to Britain’s wine drinking population, possibly influenced by the growing belief that their preferred tipple is about to get more expensive
Britain’s wine drinkers were always a Remain-ish…

Still hanging
Perhaps it is now not Brexit itself that is the biggest danger to the wine category’s fortunes in the UK, but the economic consequences of a political system that has hit the self-destruct button
In the prolonged agony of the UK’s…

UK on-trade 2019 to-do list
Some prescriptions for success amid the toughest of trading years
The sentiment is predominantly negative in the UK on-trade at the moment. Clearly, much of the near-term focus is on Brexit, and at time of writing we remain at the mercy…

Hanging from the cliff
Whatever the outcome of the latest Brexit negotiations, the wine industry – and everyone else – should be prepared for a long, hard road ahead
It feels like a climax of a classic Hollywood thriller. Time is running out; disaster looms;…

Uncorking the truth
Did British wine drinkers vote for Brexit?

Britain's OMG moment
How the nation’s wine drinkers might be feeling, post-Brexit.