Simon Loftus interviewed by Mark Bilbe, An Oral History of the Wine Trade, 2004, catalogue reference C1088/36. © British Library Board.

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The wine business was an extraordinarily traditional business when I arrived.  It was selling this mixture of wines and spirits and all sorts of strange and hideous things which have long since disappeared, sort of cocktail things called Green Goddess, or Empire Wines.  Egg flip, I remember selling.  Disgusting.

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Simon Loftus (Extraordinarily traditional business)

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