Tim Curtis 🍷🥂

Loving life in the wine trade @DirectWines1969 All things local food & drink. Leicester Tigers & England Rugby. Often found in Hampshire and mid-Solent

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

This morning I discussed @hmtreasury proposals for UK alcohol duty with @DharshiniDavid on @BBCr4today

For wine drinkers the proposals are #NotFairer & #NotSimpler For #wine merchants they are unworkable

Listen again on @BBCSounds at 6.20am

#FairerDrinksTax #FairerWineTax

[Wine Drinkers UK @WineDrinkersUK]

"For the consumer it is a case of higher costs, less choice and fewer merchants competing for their business" @timocurtis on @BBCr4today on the @RishiSunak reforms of alcohol duty that will lead to more red tape and 80% of bottles going up in price. #wine #fairerwinetax

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

@alltalresford

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

The pretty main street of Alresford, Hampshire, in the 1950s. I wish this clip was longer, it’s so perfect I want to step in and explore.

[Direct Wines @DirectWines1969]

The UK wine trade is aligned on this: make the wine duty easement permanent. Allowing it to end on 01/02/2025 would introduce significant additional administration and cost - both inhibitors to growth
@jamesmurray_ldn @RachelReevesMP @livbailey @hmtreasury @wstauk #wine #duty

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

A lot to talk about @londonwinefair today:
- wine duty
- future of the UK wine trade
- no/low
- sustainability
- alternative formats
- Deposit Return Schemes
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- Packaging Recycling Notes
#wine #duty #sustainability #packaging #advocacy

[WSTA @wstauk]

What is the wine easement and why do we need to make it permanent?

Miles Beale, Chief Executive, explains...

#CutDrinksDuty

#WSTA #WineAndSpirits #Duty #WineEasement @WSTA_Miles @Jeremy_Hunt @hmtreasury

[Direct Wines @DirectWines1969]

A reminder ahead of the #budget that the UK #wine trade faces huge new complexity next year
Making the wine duty easement permanent stops new red tape. A #duty cut increases Gov't revenue. Both reduce inflation
@Jeremy_Hunt @GarethDavies_MP @hmtreasury @wstauk #CutDrinksDuty

[WSTA @wstauk]

🚨 HMRC’s latest data shows excise duty receipts for wine & spirits were down £436m for @hmtreasury between Sept & Jan compared to 2022/23.

Add to that, losses from beer & cider, Treasury coffers are down almost £600m 📉

#CutDrinksDuty🙏@Jeremy_Hunt

https://t.co/sOqmfjneb2

[WSTA @wstauk]

Alcohol inflation causing £600m hole in Treasury coffers #CutDrinksDuty #WSTA

@laithwaites @Jeremy_Hunt

https://t.co/flVi9SCp2l

[Miles Beale @WSTA_Miles]

Important meeting with ⁦@GarethDavies_MP⁩ ⁦@hmtreasury⁩ - in advance of #Budget2024

⁦⁦@wstauk⁩ set out impact of historic duty rises in August

And made case for #cut to #excise #duty and to maintain wine easement

[Drinks Retailing @DrinksRetailing]

Now's the time to write to your MP and tell them how losing the temporary easement for wine duty will affect your business - letter template link here @DanielLambert29 @wstauk https://t.co/ehJyYoHdGu

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

@WSTA_Miles @griffitha @SharonHodgsonMP @Tobias_Ellwood @abenaopp @mattwarman @craig4monty @JamesDavies @munirawilson @BenPBradshaw @Tom_Randall @alexsobel @wendychambLD @lewis_goodall @SebastianEPayne A pleasure to chat to engaged MPs, officials, diplomats & journalists over a glass of @laithwaites Windsor Great Park English Sparkling wine at the @POLITICOEurope & @wstauk Westminster Winter Drinks last week

#wine #duty #easement #EPR #DRS #PRNs

[Direct Wines @DirectWines1969]

New Ventures Podcast: Listen to @DirectWines1969 Group CEO @davidbgates discuss our sustainability strategy with @sanjoysan & @JaideepPrabhu

Podcast link below

#sustainability #wine #climatechange #biodiversity #lightweighting #glass #packaging #shipping #recycling #vineyards

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

@EaterWriter Berkshire: Windsor Great Park Vineyard 🥂

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@Wine_and_Rugby @EaterWriter @HarrowandHope Seconded! 🥂

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

@DirectWines1969 @RishiSunak @Helen_Whately @wstauk @WineDrinkersUK @threadreaderapp unroll

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

@EaterWriter @IoWBobSeely @terraceventnor I’d be happy to meet you @IoWBobSeely & @EaterWriter to talk about wine duty, explain @DirectWines1969 concerns and discuss recommendations. Constituency day on the island this summer?

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

Essential long read ahead of the new wine duty rates coming in on 1st August:

🔴 20% duty increase for most still wines
🔴 44% duty increase for fortified wines
🔴 More complexity for wine businesses

Great 🧵@GavinQuinney

#wine #duty #FairerDrinksTax

[Gavin Quinney @GavinQuinney]

The Govt were right to alert us at the start of July.

‘On 1 August 2023, the Alcohol Duty system will become much simpler, taxing all alcoholic drinks based on their alcohol by volume (ABV)’

It’s not ‘much simpler’ so here’s

A guide to the UK duty hikes on wine

A very long🧵

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

“If you’re in the UK wine & spirits trade and not already a member of the @wstauk, you’re missing out!”

#wine #wineindustry #spirits #spiritsindustry #wsta #tradeassociation #advocacy #FairerDrinksTax @DirectWines1969

[WSTA @wstauk]

Don't take it from us... listen to the WSTA members https://t.co/mVmskAYPeF

They are right ☺️ if you aren't already a member of the WSTA you should be. To find out how to join go to 👇https://t.co/uLJQeRZlLu 🍷🍸🥂🥃

#StrongerTogether #FairerDrinksTax #wine #spirits

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

“61% of a £5 bottle of wine is tax”

Add @Jeremy_Hunt ‘s 44p extra duty per bottle and from 1st August £3.50 of a £5 bottle is tax

70%!

Yes, really, 70%…

#wine #duty #fairerdrinkstax

[Joe Fattorini @joefattorini]

Joe Fattorini's Substack: Chairman Mao was wrong. The revolution was a dinner party https://t.co/Xe5o2kRIXn

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

@wstauk @AlokSharma_RDG @lrobertsonTewks @BrineMP

[Tim Curtis 🍷🥂 @timocurtis]

Honoured to give feedback to the Wine & Spirits APPG from @DirectWines1969 on the Spring Budget & to answer questions from engaged MPs

The largest wine duty increase in 5 decades is:

❌ inflationary
❌ distortive
❌ a brutal cost increase for the UK’s SME-rich #wine trade

[WSTA @wstauk]

@WSTA_Miles with new chair of the Wine and Spirits APPG, @grahambradymp
Also chair of the Conservative Party's 1922 committee, Sir Graham was elected as APPG chair at Tuesday’s AGM in Parliament, which also included briefing MPs on duty increases announced in the Spring Budget