Winos

Just something that I've read about recently.

When you buy a bottle of wine back home it says "Tyrrell's Chardonnay 2005" for example. Here it would also say "Hunter Valley" or "Margaret River" to indicate the region that it came from. Unfortunately for the UK all the left over wine from all the regions that grow "Tyrrell's Chardonnay 2005" is put into a big vat and then bottled and sold abroad.

This means means two things. Firstly the wine that you get back home is a blend of lots of vineyards and it's their left overs. Secondly, they can charge a ton of cash for otherwise cheap wine. The best example of this has been Wolf Blass. Back home it is one of the most expensive wines for under a tenner which here sells for about $7 (£3).

So based on that I experimented with a $5 bottle of generic merlot and it pretty much tasted the same as a decent merlot. 2 quid for a bottle of merlot. You can't beat that!