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50% of Smith and Evans, makers of fine English Wines. Ex Wine Trader now micro managing a beautiful Somerset Vineyard.
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Earliest ever Chardonnay flowering in the vineyard. Are we the first in the UK for this variety??

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Controversial but I think Bordeaux might just be the best value source of red wine anywhere at the moment. This 2019 from Chateau Beaumont is ridiculously good at £12.95 from the Wine Society.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Of course this has all happened before. Back then Global Trade was a fraction of what it is today and it made a dire situation worse rather than creating its own crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Is this right, the world economy is tanking and Trump has gone to play golf? I bet he cheats.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I think for Trump "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I think I might be putting off retirement for a bit.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

It seems American Exceptionalism might be somewhat misplaced.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

The decline of Britain as a world power started in earnest in 1945, was confirmed eleven years later by Suez. The USA is beating that timescale by quite some margin.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

The one thing more dangerous than a politician who believes in nothing is a politician who believes in something stupid.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Given that the extra cost of tariffs get passed onto consumers, aren't they just a huge sales tax ?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Will Trump's tariff day be his Truss moment?

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

First Canada and Greenland. What will the USA want next? Somewhere oil rich, has A nuclear base,Trump has a golf course and it has a big beautiful wall (in need of repair). There's even an snippy political party to co-opt that sees themselves as ruled by a foreign elite. Scotland, you're next 😳

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Wine competitions should have a special category called - divides the room. You see judges plowing through wines that are distinctly average. It's the ones that half of them love and half hate that are invariably the most interesting but they too get average scores.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

How sustainable is it for the UK to have military bases on its soil that are controlled by an increasingly hostile foreign power?

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know much about the Canadian USA border but if I was a Canuck (I hope that's an affectionate term, I intend it that way), I'd be looking at any lake Islands, bends in the river, promontories or other features. If you're going to invent a border dispute, that's where it's going to happen.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Having to put a 25%tariff on your competitors is basically like holding up a great big sign saying our products are really shit and this is the only way to sell them.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Checkout affordable art on the Paintings in Hospitals website. Every sale helps Paintings in Hospitals support health and wellbeing in care spaces across the UK.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Same thing has occurred to me recently.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

In times of financial uncertainty buying fine wine was used by wealthy people as a safe haven and prices rose accordingly. I'm not so close to the market anymore but this time it doesn't seem to be happening, the market seems flat or in decline. Why is this?

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment