It's that Rich List thing. Having been de-listed, she wonders if I'll really need her when I'm flogging 'Big Issue' outside Waitrose. I hate that wretched List. The wealth they attribute to us is purely notional in our case and varies as the Company earnings.
You invest heavily setting up shop in Australia, America, Germany, Hong Kong and the rest, so logically your earnings drop. And your 'notional wealth' goes with it. Notional. Those 58 millions Max thinks we lost, we never had in the first place.
Max, no-one should worry; Laithwaites Wine is going like a train wherever we have set up, and not just in the UK. And it's just as well we are not UK-only, given that in the last two years they've increased tax on wine here by 25% and plan lots more 'take' apparently. Wonderful!
Did you know there's no wine tax at all in Hong Kong?
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Barbara takes her wine exam tomorrow. Thank Heavens. I would like to talk about something other than grapes. And not have the aggro anymore. Last night with the grilled the fish I served up Couly Dutheil Blanc de Franc - a terrific white wine made from Cabernet Franc; a red grape.
Thanks? No, just got accused of trying to confuse her.
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