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I live in Italy, and this area (like pretty much the entirety of Southern Europe) is a winemaking region. I can buy decent wines for less than 2 Euros a bottle
by qalmakka 6y ago
I live in Italy, and this area (like pretty much the entirety of Southern Europe) is a winemaking region. I can buy decent wines for less than 2 Euros a bottle - and I mean PDO or PGT stuff, the crappy no-brand wine is even much much less.
It does not contain additives, it's just plain wine. I do not drink often so I use it mostly for cooking, but it would be definitely drinkable, and it's probably something that would cost 10 times as much on the other side of the ocean.
Also, wineries sell directly to customers, so if you are really keen into drinking a lot of wine you can just go there, fill several demijohns and then bottle it yourself. My father (and his father, and my mother's father, and everyone else over a certain age) has done this every year for their entire life.
- _wldu 6y agoThis is sort of like buying milk in Wisconsin. It's cheap because it's right there. No distribution cost.
- cik 6y agoCan confirm - it's a matter of taxation. I bought bottles of wine from there while in Italy for 3EUR per bottle. The exact same bottle retailed for 35CAD in the LCBO in Toronto. Since moving to Israel I've noticed something very similar. A bottle of Red (yes, that's a brand) can be purchased in the corner store for the equivalent of $8 CDN. In Canada the same bottle was a little over $45. This is all about protecting the local wine industry through tarriffs - nothing else.
- qalmakka 6y ago> protecting the local wine industry through tarriffs Does the grapevine grow in Canada? That would be a surprising discovery.
- mekkkkkk 6y ago> This is all about protecting the local wine industry through tarriffs Don't you think it has to do with culture and disincentivizing? Most countries tend to tax potentially harmful products a lot higher than other products. See tobacco for example. The astronomical price for a pack of smokes is not for protecting local industries.
- dagw 6y agoIf you're taxing to disincentivize consumption, you tax all alcohol the same no matter what form it's in or where it comes from. If you're taxing European wine more than locally produced wine then it obviously has nothing to do with health.
- mekkkkkk 6y agoOf course, but the post I replied to said nothing about local vs import. It only said that some bottles of wine was a lot more expensive in Canada than in their countries of origin.
- mekkkkkk 6y agoHow do you know it doesn't contain additives? As I understand, additives is pretty much standard in all wines. Even ecologically certified wines are allowed to have additives in them. And there is no obligation to list them on the bottle.