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Your tax money goes towards lots of things: healthcare, road maintenance, public transport – even a government wine cellar. In this video, we’re taking a look at why the government even has a wine cellar, and whether it provides any value to the tax payer.
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1 – https://www.ft.com/content/496a5f8c-49df-4714-b6d6-2b9e248ecbbe
2 – https://vinalchemy.com/blogs/blogs-from-winewizard-3/the-wine-cellar-of-the-houses-of-parliament-a-hidden-gem
3 – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/british-government-wine-cellar-fortune-westminster/
4 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Wine_Cellar
5 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13378301
6 – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-hospitality-wine-cellar-biennial-report-2022-to-2024/government-hospitality-wine-cellar-biennial-report-2022-to-2024
22 Comments
STRATEGIC WINE RESERVE IS FOR 10 DOWNING STREET PARTIES WHEN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS IN LOCKDOWN AND NOT ALLOWED TO PARTY.
Just in case
In Vino Veritas.
So what you're saying is the most efficiently run government department is a wine cellar…
Folks don’t understand why rich people have wine cellars. It’s not for show. It’s very cost effective to buy wine at £20 a bottle, hold it for 5-10 years, and drink it when it would have cost £250 a bottle. It’s really that simple.
The government wine committee just sounds like the people that plan the Christmas party
This was a good video 😂!
2:05 Hang on a second, you guys actually drink Yellow Tail? Here in Australia that's the horse shit you get poured still warm and dusty at a country pub because nobody ever asks for it.
using AI generated video at 1:01 when pouring the wine into a glass. the glass isint filling up, its just disappearing.
Don't forget about the strategic cheese reserve in the USA
So British that our most well run government department is the wine department 😂
At least it's not losing us money. Unlike every other aspect if this country.
As long as the torie K reserves are still full, we're good.
Has the Scottish Govt a Strategic Malt Whisky Reserve…??? If not …Why not ! 🤑
People don’t appreciate British wines enough. Especially from the last decade.
Master of Wine isn't a title bestowed by your government on someone. It's a title issued by The Institute of Masters of Wine. It's the highest qualification in wine, and only 415 people worldwide have it.
I mean can you imagine how WW2 would have gone if Winston Churchill didn't have a high functioning alcoholic's stockpile of champagne?
This reminds me of the crown warden of the swan's job; you might think it's unnecessary and best kept to a private establishment but when you realise the warden of the swan is a leading figure for veterinarian swan care and biology.
Thus I'll be more appreciative of this department even if I only discovered it 10 seconds before clicking this video because I understood: that some things are more important than it perceived
A small technicality: English, Scottish or Welsh wine has to be made from grapes grown in the stated country but "British wine" can legally be made from imported grapes. I think the particular brand mentioned in this article would qualify as English.
"why we are paying taxes?"
In a society you give a little of what you work for towards the collective in order to be look after by the collective.
If the collective do not look after you then what's the reason to give anything 🤷♂️
Meanwhile they can't fund a proper army 😂.
Waiting for video covering Russia's stretegy vodka reserve.