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The thing that blew me away about France is you could buy a bottle of wine in the supermarket for less than a bottle of coca cola.
by eloff 4y ago
The thing that blew me away about France is you could buy a bottle of wine in the supermarket for less than a bottle of coca cola.
- water8 4y ago
- charlieyu1 4y agoSigh. £6 a bottle of cheapest wine here in UK because of import tax and alcohol tax. And I could buy British gin in Hong Kong cheaper than in UK
- switch007 4y agoYou can find cheaper than £6 but you probably don’t want to drink it Eg £4 https://www.aldi.co.uk/kooliburra-australian-chardonnay/p/047963003899400 https://www.aldi.co.uk/kooliburra-australian-chardonnay/p/04...
- leoedin 4y agoOnce you take into account duty, VAT, packaging, transport and supermarket markup a £5 bottle of wine leaves maybe 25p for the wine producer. That's why the quality/price relationship is so non-linear at the bottom end. 20% more on the bottle price is 400% more to the producer. https://www.decanter.com/learn/tax-wine-much-pay-uk-ask-decanter-357119/ https://www.decanter.com/learn/tax-wine-much-pay-uk-ask-deca...
- teh_klev 4y agoSee also minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland.
- charlieyu1 4y agoJust checked, what a rubbish law. Doesn’t affect the rich who drink expensive stuff while screwing the poor. In the name of protecting people as well.
- teh_klev 4y agoYep. It also made unnecessary busy work for UK wide online retailers such as Majestic who had to add a special case for sales to folks in Scotland.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoI can buy Jameson cheaper in pretty much all of Europe, relative to Ireland. It's very sad.
- tuyiown 4y agoWhen that happens, buy the coca cola ! You can find proper wine at 4-5€ at the producer, 3.5€ is probably the strict absolute minimum where you can find honest wine direct from producer. Any thing below is just fermented garbage, the grappes that otherwise would spoil the wine, it just happen to have sugar to be fermented, I don't know how the hell how they are pre-processed, just stay away from it.
- vidarh 4y agoWhen I was 18, I went on a short exchange to a little town in the south of France, and the first day there our hosts took us to get lunch. To our great surprise they picked up a number of bottles of wine to drink in the middle of the school day. We asked them why. Their answer was "beer is too expensive".
- Bayart 4y agoThat would be cooking wine. Please don't drink it.