Recent content by alexwuk

A year has passed since my last "primer" for CellarLink customers, and Private Messages have been disabled since then, so here's a redacted re-post: ============================================ CellarLink do have real stocks of wine. Tons of them. They are indeed in LCB Glasgow. If you have...

Hi Eamonn, Hopefully your orders ledger shows I'm trying to make a dent in the wine mountain... my database says I've bought around 700 bottles CellarLink.. I'm trying! Which would explain why I'm rarely sober... 600,000 is indeed a huge, huge number. Way, way bigger than the UK can handle...

Re: cellar link To clarify: if you release the wine from your Cellarlink account to yourself/friends/Unbonded auction house (which straker are), you pay VAT (the UK's version of GST) on the price you paid for the wines - even if you have written the wine off in your head/on your balance sheet.

Yes, I have received multiple, substantial deliveries of purchases from CellarLink UK. All were delivered from LCB Glasgow and all bore "Imported by Australian Portfolio Wines (UK) Ltd" stickers on each bottle, even in seemingly winery sealed cases. The wines were unquestionably genuine, and...

Having read a little more, I can add the following: Tax. Britain has two taxes on wine. One is a fixed price per bottle (duty) and is around £1.80 per bottle. The other is VAT and is a percentage of the sale price (20pct) if the sale price is low, therefore the tax is low... Wine can be sold...

Hi, I'm Alex. I have no affiliation with anyone. I have bought wine from CellarLink UK in the past - quite a bit in fact. I have the good fortune not to have been involved with any wine "investments" - I own 10,000 bottles and my collection is probably worth quite a bit - but it's not an...