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UK Budget 2021: Wine duty frozen for second year, fine wine, fine wines.

Budget UK 2021 - Wine Duty Frozen

Chancellor Sunak has decided to keep wine duty frozen for the second consecutive year. To summarise that means UK duty on 75cl wine bottle is £2.23 and £2.86 on sparkling wine and then VAT is charged on top for all...

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whispering angels, fine wine, fine wines

The Whispering Angels By Tom Cannavan

"There’s no doubt the marketing of Provence’s rosé wines is slick, the implied St Tropez lifestyle, fancy bottles and jewel-like colour of the wines all contributing to their outstanding success in recent decades. Of course, the quality of the wines...

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Bordeaux 2019 - What The Critics Think

Bordeaux 2019 - What The Critics Think

Neal Martin "excellent vintage"Up there with 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2016 - “a notch below the 2016s”.Neal Martin’s highlights:Cos d’Estournel, Calon-Ségur, Lafon-Rochet, Meyney, Pichon-Lalande, Mouton-Rothschild, Lafite-Rothschild, Lynch-Bages, Ducru Beaucaillou, Léoville-Las Cases and Le Petit Lion, Léoville-Poyferré, Gloria, Saint-Pierre, Léoville-Barton,...

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THE TIMES - "Drink Pink! The 30 Best Rosé Wines"

THE TIMES - "Drink Pink! The 30 Best Rosé Wines"

2019 Rock Angel, Caves d’Esclans, Côtes de Provence Rosé, France, 14 per centfinewinedirect.co.uk, £22.95BUY NOW "Sacha Lichine’s dramatic, herby Rock Angel is one up from wishy-washy Whispering Angel with a lot more alcohol and oomph, care of oak-barrel ageing and...

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Wine of the week: a mind-blowing rosé by Matthew Jukes, Money Week

Wine of the week: a mind-blowing rosé by Matthew Jukes, Money Week

Read article click here! 2018 Château d’Esclans, Garrus, Côtes de Provence, France "2018 Garrus (£94.95, finewinedirect.co.uk) is Les Clans with the volume knob turned up, ripped off and thrown over the garden hedge. Sensational, bombastic, imposing, impossibly grand and, for once, relatively...

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