You can buy fruit wines of all different sorts in the UK. But people rarely do, and in general they aren't that great that you'd want to drink much/often. As a

You can buy fruit wines of all different sorts in the UK. But people rarely do, and in general they aren't that great that you'd want to drink much/often. As another poster mentioned, they're largely seen as a novelty. As is mead, which is almost invariably wine-strength and very dense/sweet. Oddly I'm seeing much more mead on the market here in Australia, and much more variation, there are dry, champagne-style meads, and quaffable meads around the 6% mark, as well as various interesting fruited meads and apple+other fruit ciders. I've even seen Cyser sold commercially in a mainstream store. Oh, and for anyone that's ever wondered - "why is it that all the fruit flavoured ciders in the UK are exactly 4% alcohol?" It's the licensing laws. Any drink over 4% that contains fruits other than just apples or pears is considered a wine and taxed a lot more. IIRC this is due to be reformed at some point.