Despite progress & a few noticeable changes in wines laws such as Vi1 & now labelling as of yesterday, the elephant in the room is the ridiculous proposals of Organic wine importer certification & storage. @VictoriaPrentis do I really need to ask @CPJElmore meet with you?
Just so you understand @VictoriaPrentis, like Vi1 and Back labelling which were both unnecessary, so is an Organic Wine Importer certification. Moreover when your required to store organic wine separately from regular wine you really do have to question who wrote this nonsense.
Even more ridiculous is that fact that retailers don’t have to be registered into any system for organic wine retail. So @VictoriaPrentis I really think you should be looking at this urgently before you get another industry wide letter advising just how much this is not wanted.
So whilst I know @WSTA_Miles@wstauk has already highlighted all of this to you @VictoriaPrentis but as it wasn’t in the government wines papers yesterday it would seem we need your focus here too.
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As we enter August the #Brexit effect is now showing, in my industry at least, the permanent issues that we have to deal with. Here is my updated thread for my business in the wine industry. 1/25
It’s fair to say that Brexit has delivered very few positive outcomes to the wine trade, needless to say there are many more negatives which we now manage to the best of our abilities. 2/25
On the positive side, the end of the grey market and overseas online retailer has effectively ceased in U.K. because taxes and shipping has made the practice unsustainable verses regular U.K. retailers. 3/25
Ok I can see this HGV driver shortage is now grabbing all the headlines. Of course I advised on this about a month ago with @SarahOnTheNews on BBC Wales. So what really going on?
The fact is this driver shortage is totally avoidable and is directly coming from Government not letting FOM for EU drivers in the UK, because there not ‘skilled’. So they they have gone.
Moreover they don’t want to come to the UK, well can’t really blame them after making them all sit on a runaway for 5 days before Xmas.
A few weeks ago we sent our first export via our own customs declaration process. We thought we should try as we had everything in place since January but had not actually used the system. Wow we were wrong and its another level of utter crap.
So we have got just about imports sorted and have every type of import on a template now. That taken the best part of six months and still the system doesn’t run smoothly, and there is an issue with nearly every import. However exports…
So after doing our first import we got a P9 notice last week. This was to advise the export has not been cleared off the Chief system. Fair enough we thought. We shall clear it down. But this where the games start.
What makes us the best importers of wine in Wales? The simply answer is the wines we sell. But it’s not me saying this, it’s a host of professional tasters. Here is a thread of reviews from the talented Tamlyn Currin as she tastes our wines for JancisRobinson.com
Here is my thread updating the ongoing circus of Vi1. As you may recall this is a document with absolutely no purpose and will add a further barrier (& cost) to trade to EU #wines if introduced. The industry wants them removed permanently & immediately for all wines. 1/15
Since the middle of 2019 the trade has been calling out the nonsense that is vi1 and demanding that first they are not introduced for EU wines but also scrapped for ROW wines where this form IS already used. 2/15
As part of the FTA the was agreed on Xmas Eve 2020 Vi1’s were kicked down the road until July 2021. Along with the new rules for organic wines requiring additional paperwork and certifications . 3/15
Once again this evening I got asked why the UK doesn’t stop buying wine from the EU and replace that with ROW wines. So please understand the follow facts and your understand the answer.
1) The uk consumes 12M bottles per day, but the the UK produces 12M bottles per year, of which most of this is expensive sparkling wine. 2) currently 66% of this daily volume comes from the EU the rest is from ROW.
3) ROW are mostly at production capacity and sell most of there volume annually. So to change the demographics would be challenging and requires global cooperation.