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• Christmas Champagne; children in pubs; tax and the cost of your bottle

  Which Champagnes are good to look out for thisChristmas? As one East London pub draws the line: children out after 7pm, is this the future for drinking culture? And exactly how much of the price of your bottle of wine goes straight to the taxman? Andrew Neather and Victoria Moore pull apart some of the big issues in wine.Christmas Champagne: we recommend two stand-out affordable buys and look at how the quality stacks up when you’re comparing cheap Champagne and classy crémant or Cava, tasting Gavin Quinney’s ⁠Château Bauduc Crémant de Bordeaux⁠ 2021.Leyton’s William IV pub says its ban on children in the pub after 7pm comes in response to customer feedback. So should pubs be looking after drinkers or families first?Following the Budget, we look at how higher duty has added to a host of cost pressures on wine. How does Britain’s alcohol tax measure up against that of other European countries? Andafter duty, VAT and the new EPR recycling levy, plus transport, packaging and the rest, how much of the cost of an £8 bottle is left for the wine itself? Recommendations:Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears: The Story of the 1990s Restaurant Revolution by Andrew TurvilThe Wines of Beaujolais by Natasha Hughes MW

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• English wine: triumph or crisis?

  This year's English grape harvest as been hailed as one of the best ever. So why has one of the country's biggest and best producers, Ridgeview, just gone into administration? We look at the harvest and at the challenges of making money from English wine - when you're in competition with Champagne. Also: Prosecco and why the Champagne authorities are threatening model Cara Delevingne; on the road in Galicia, Spain after devastating fires in its vineyards; and what we've been drinking this week.

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