I have been set a challenge by @richardsiddle to find any positives of Brexit and how it will be good for my industry. I am quite a positive guy so here is what I have come up with thus far.
So it’s true the grey market is dramatically reduced in the UK now and the direct to consumer mail order companies can’t bypass UK duties. So that is good. But it’s a tiny part of the UK wine industry.
Hmm starting to struggle now... if government did remove Vi-1 that would be a major boost to the trade and would make shipping interesting wines from non EU countries more viable. So that would be a Brexit bonus if Gove stopped being a numpty.
Right well that’s about it. Everything else is going in the wrong direction, but if anyone can think of anything else feel free to add your comments, @richardsiddle what do you have apart from those two points?

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