THE WINE MERCHANT. An independent magazine for independent retailers
Issue 105, August 2021
Dog of the Month: Jasper Ripponden Wine Company
Now we need a rethink on crazy organic import rules VI-1 win galavanises trade in fight against law that will require importers to be audited by organic licensing bodies
H
aving won the battle to scrap VI-1 import forms, the wine trade is
being urged to start campaigning
against plans that will make organic wine importing more problematic.
There are also calls to make the
government change course on regulations
that would make it illegal to bring in wines from the EU without importer details on
the back label – a requirement that did not apply when the UK was part of the single
market but which is mandatory for wines
who, along with David Gleave of Liberty
month when the government finally
Spirit Trade Association, had led the trade’s
from outside the EU.
There was widespread jubilation last
accepted the trade’s argument that VI-1
forms for EU wines would add about £330 per shipment because of compulsory lab tests, deterring many smaller producers
from dealing with UK importers, typically independent merchants.
Daniel Lambert of Daniel Lambert Wines,
Wines, Hal Wilson of Cambridge Wine
Merchants and Miles Beale of the Wine & fight against VI-1s, says the question
of organic wine imports was “the next pressing matter”.
From January next year, any importer
that brings in wines that are certified as
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John Jasilowicz (pictured right with his colleague, Gonzalo Ontiveros) has opened Cambridge Wine Rooms following stints at Oddbins, Planet of the Grapes and Vagabond – and two years in Brazil. Full story on page four.
