Thread by @DanielLambert29

Let me take you on a journey from 2016 to 2023. This wine remains one of my favourite wines in our entire range. It’s from North Western Spain and it Albariño. But how much has its price changed over the past 7 years. Well quite a bit…

The label and bottle have remained the same over the last seven vintages, the price from the producers has also remained the same from 2016-2022, its just this year the price increased due to a shorter than normal crop. The increase was 0.50€ on the bottle from the winery.

This increases was very reasonable compared to many in the region and was required. Now let’s have a look at how the price changed in the UK for wholesale and ultimately the consumer.

We didn’t change the wholesale price from 2016 to 2019. We had no reason to change it. Our logistics were steady and prices were consistent. The average cost per pallet shipped was £190. Then Brexit arrived in January 2020.

Firstly we lost our transporter for EU groupage. The company simply stopped the service from EU to UK due to paperwork and Brexit. Bearing in mind we have our own Bonded Warehouse and do the UK documents we were surprised by this.

So we were forced to look at different transportation for each EU country to get the best deal as you might expect. After a few weeks we teamed up with a specialist Spanish logistics company which still does all our Spanish shipping today.

However from £190 per pallet we are now paying £345 per pallet. So nearly double the cost to achieve the same result. This has meant despite doing the UK documents we had to increase the wholesale price in 2020 by £0.45 per bottle, on retail this is £1 per bottle.

So in 2016 the wine was retailing for £11.99, today it’s closer to £13.99, and then with the duty increase planned for August 2023 it will go up to £14.99 and if your in Scotland with DRS your be paying £16.99.

This is the direct result of Government interference and the public not understanding what Brexit really means for supply chains. If you vote for barriers to trade it has a cost to goods and services. That’s a fact that nobody can deny.

Brexit has fuelled inflation in the UK & is making simple things in life like a bottle of wine from Spain considerably more expensive. It’s not covid or any other outside influence, it’s pure Brexit making a product more expensive for zero gain. A fact Brexit types won’t except

If you like wine I strongly suggest you buy an extra few bottles each week up to excise increase in August. With 45p being added to every bottle at cost, it will be quite a saving to build a little reserve now if you can.

As a business owner I never wanted Brexit because I could see the damage & inflation it would cause, I don’t want a Scottish DRS because I can see the damage it will cause, I don’t want variable excise rate because I can see the damage it will cause. Governments don’t know best.

Business and industry know better than any self serving politician. Johnson a man totally obsessed in his own self gratification has done more damage to the UK than any terrorist attack could ever achieve. But still Brexit types turn a blind eye to reality. #BrexitBrokeBritain