What are you drinking 2024.

[Donegal john]

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This morning a coffee on DFDS ferry to Calais for a pre Christmas wine buying trip.
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Preprandial Chimay Biere Blonde in a little town restaurant in Marck, just outside Calais.
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Then it's Alsace Pinot Noir with local smoked salmon starter.
Both amazingly tasty.
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The it's another glass of red with the in-house Flanders speciality Potscheuelsh, salad and the thinnest of chips imaginable.
Suffice to say also top flavours.
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Then SWMBO'D followed with a serve-yourself pears in spiced red wine.
I tried some, the tastiest poached pear I never had.
I just had a coffee (not shown).
I then tasted a few (few too many) in the Calais wine superstore.
Obviously no photos there either!🥂🥂🥂🍷🍷🍷
A little sleepy now.

What’s your wine allowance now after brexit ?

 

[531Man]

What’s your wine allowance now after brexit ?

As of 2021 (when even the conversion of the Champagne +/spirits allowance to still wine, permitting an extra 9 litres was removed by HM Gov.),
it's now only 18 litres wine per person.
That's 24 bottles of 750ml each.
The only thing that make it remotely financially viable now is the vat reclaim systems operated by Global Blue or Skiptax.
'Pablo' terminals for the scanning of vat reclaim barcodes when leaving France are at all Channel ports / shuttle sites.
Oh, and 42 litres beer!

 

[Donegal john]

As of 2021 (when even the conversion of the Champagne +/spirits allowance to still wine, permitting an extra 9 litres was removed by HM Gov.),
it's now only 18 litres wine per person.
That's 24 bottles of 750ml each.
The only thing that make it remotely financially viable now is the vat reclaim systems operated by Global Blue or Skiptax.
'Pablo' terminals for the scanning of vat reclaim barcodes when leaving France are at all Channel ports / shuttle sites.
Oh, and 42 litres beer!

We’ll worth it then 👍