Inflation, an incompetent Government and Brexit are hammering wine prices at the moment. Here's a breakdown of where the money goes on an £8 bottle of wine and as you can see a significant proportion (50%) goes to the Inland Revenue! Of course £8 might be a typical spend in a supermarket or wine shop (i.e. retail), but in a restaurant (an industry that's being similarly squeezed at the moment) you would probably be paying 3 or 4 times that amount for the same product; there are very few products out there where you'd put up with being gouged like this, buying wine in restaurants isn't pleasurable for me any more (it used to be!) it looks more and more like a scam.
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