I ALWAYS wondered what exactly ‘fine wine’ was. The same goes for ‘fine dining’. Where do you draw the line between ‘fine’ and ‘quite good’? And who draws it?
Anyway, it seems that we, the great British nation, are starting to get a little more sophisticated when it comes to wine. According to a spokesman for Majestic Wine shops, sales of wine costing £20 or more have jumped by a quarter in just the last year.
Although considering you can buy a decent bottle for a fiver, maybe ‘gullible’ is a more apt description than ‘sophisticated’.
Posted: 26th, June 2007 | In: Money Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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June 27th, 2007 at 8:09 am
A close friend of mine who lives in the UK only drinks plonk and Tab. She was delighted when she found Aniston Bay in a bottle store here on a resent visit. SA has some of the best wines in the world but we all learn to drink plonk as students and never learn to appreciate good wine. Maybe Viniculture should be considered as a subject in matric for a bit of culture education. I would love to understand all the diffrent flavours but it all tastes like vrot grapes to me.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I love Barolo, but sadly can’t always imbibe due to cost, so its kept for birthdays (mine) and when I row with the family to get them out of the house , so that I can enjoy a bottle solo and in peace.
For every day a reasonably priced Merlot is fine, I find the Chilean and Aussie ones good in taste and price.
Have joined two wine clubs and find some of their offers are very good, preferring red wines anyway.
Some wines are badly overpriced, and I do find standing a bottle on its botty for 3 or 4 days before opening does help, and keeping it at a fairly constant temperature.
I am investing in some wine boxes to practice for the Anorak wine challenge