This Christmas brings us not pandemic isolation and support bubbles – but monster inflation. Annual domestic gas bills in the UK threaten to rival, in craziness, the price of a box of Bordeaux first growths. Those energy costs have sent the price of almost everything else ripping up after them. Is there, um, anything to be said for cheap wine?
There is. First, though, we must sip the bitter harvest of alcohol taxes. These are high in the UK
