Heading off to Switzerland for some MW study. Just a nicer environment for tasting the wines blind, a clinical desk space in the mountains compared to a clinical desk space in London. Something about athlete’s training at altitude ?

Still putting out a newsletter at 10pm on a Sunday night, because I will not be constrained by normative conventions.

There’s been loads of noise when discussing the new wine duty in the UK that has been bugging me. As much as I’m frustrated by further increases to our already costly wine duty taxes, the other argument is one I can’t get too grumpy about. newsletter.dnkrbywine.club/p/its-your-d...

It's your Duty to do the Maths.

I might get it in the neck for this one, but I think the new duty system is only 50% really bad.

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Is this a safe space to mouth off about stuff like the other place was? Here goes; Wine Society 2023 - We’ll soak up dutty hikes if you buy a bit more wines. Wine Society 2025 - ARGH, fuck, the duty hikes are against us!