Victoria Moore

Author of the Wine Dine Dictionary. Freelance writer. Daily Telegraph wine columnist. Smell obsessive.

[Victoria Moore @PlanetVictoria]

@RealGreenAcres @CutMyTaxUK That’s the amount it would go up by not the amount people would pay. Current Band D is £1,529. A rise of 100% doubles it to £3,058. A rise of 150% adds £2,294 and takes it to £3,823. Quite a lot for someone living in a flat with a crippling mortgage. So then everyone will sell…

[Victoria Moore @PlanetVictoria]

@CutMyTaxUK That’s not what they would pay. That’s the amount it would go up by. Band D in H&F is currently £1,529.51 so an increase of 150% would take it to £3,823. By some margin the highest in the country. And that band D home is probably a small flat rather than the nice house elsewhere

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@JamesP728 If you want to tax wealth tax income or capital gains. Otherwise you’re taxing someone’s spending choices. Which if it’s on a home near a job is hardly fair.

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@Hamilton61Colin @WestminsterWAG @andyburnham Or, you’ve spent decades paying into a giant mortgage thanks to the stupid choice to look for a job in London, while those outside London have enjoyed a higher standard of living and probably squirrelled more into a pension.

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@jh_liam @KirstieMAllsopp @mrPbutters Who will buy all the flats and houses no one can afford to live in any more? Who will pay the benefits to those who’ve moved away from their job if they can’t find a new one in the cheaper place?

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@DanNeidle @ShankaMonad Please can you consider single parents with dependent children; most are female. Those working &living in London/the south in order to be near the job are going to be royally screwed if this goes ahead, affording the home will already have meant much sacrifice.

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@joefattorini @michelrouxjr Had exactly the same thought.

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@gilescoren @LozzaFox I've been hearing for a while from certain retailers that sales of US wines are down in the UK because people are switching their buying habits for political reasons.

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A smarter, funnier listen for the journey home for Christmas. It’s the Get Yourself a Glass Christmas Special. Andrew Neather and I on the things that really matter, such as good things to drink with Stilton and can AI write tasting notes? https://t.co/Q61VH9p9iq

[Harry Wallop @hwallop]

I regret to inform you, but marmalade consumption continues to plummet in the UK.
Back in 1974 each adult, each week, ate on average 27g. It was a mere 4g in 2024 (down from 6g in 2023).
Honey, by contrast, has gone from 5g in 1974 to 9g last year.

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@hwallop @timesculture What a great question. They sound like good candidates. Gotta be old-school to clock up so many weeks. Stephen Hawking? John Le Carré?

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@guyawoodward @boozecolumnist Yep, as legacy media we cover those trends RELENTLESSLY...especially the chilled red one which we have on the shortest possible loop and the max mentions within pieces not specifically about temperature/chilled reds.

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@Wenvoewriter I’d love to recommend more from Lidl but they don’t make it very easy - last time I spent half a day tasting their wines, of the seven I wanted to recommend they said that five they wouldn’t be selling after all….

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If you're a Telegraph subscriber, come on over here and tell us all what's going in your glass tonight:
https://t.co/7XFsgQwRJL

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@kempettes I’ll check again on Monday. It was due in right now, perhaps there is a small delay. I’m sorry about your wasted journey.

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I'm online at the Telegraph fielding questions on Greek wine. So far, the readers are mostly not keen - "Fine if you’ve got a scraper and a door that needs stripping," Come on over and beg to differ (if you do)
https://t.co/p5EJmzoOnV

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@ochkenny I've circled the word viognier in my notes and written "very" next to it. Even though there's only 5% of it. You used to be able to find nearest stores with stock online but that function doesn't seem to be there for the assyrtiko

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@PGPowell Impossible to pick just one. If I tasted all the new vintages I'm sure it would be a xinomavro but I wrote about affordable whites for the paper and can say the Kintonis Malagousia is lovely.

[Victoria Moore @PlanetVictoria]

Santorini assyrtiko used to be carafe wine. Now it's one of the most expensive grapes in the world (for a generic PDO). I'll be online from 5.30pm fielding questions about affordable Greek wines. If you have one, pop it there now and I'll answer it later.
https://t.co/p5EJmzoOnV