To think £10 a bottle for wine isn’t that cheap

[Zinfan]

I went into our local wine shop yesterday to get some wine. I thought I would get something from there instead of from sainsburys or tesco, and support an independent business.

The guy working there asked if he could help. I mentioned I was having friends over for dinner, and I was cooking chicken. So I was after some cheapish wine, say about a tenner a bottle. I’d want three bottles. Did he have any recommendations?

He sighed and muttered something about “not really at that price point ” and then awkwardly pointed to a bottle of chardonnay. This wasn’t a fancy wine shop, they had all sorts, lots around the £12 mark, which if he recommended one I would have been happy to pay.

I got some Italian wine from there for £10 a bottle and it tasted like pi$$, genuinely the same kind of stuff you get in a jug for €3 at a greek taverna. I looked online and it’s cheap stuff, not a tenner’s worth. Wish I’d just gone to sainsbury’s and got something nice enough for a tenner there. Plus I wouldn’t have felt like I was a serf

I only drink Marlborough wine, so usually at least £10, sometimes a bit cheaper if on offer in a big supermarket. Our local wine shop charges about £12-14 for the same bottle. Personally I'd rather spend a bit more and get a nice bottle that I like rather than cat piss. So I don't the price was unreasonable.

We have a wine shop near us , tried it three times , utter rubbish. Much better wine in waitrose or aldi
Sad as I like supporting local enterprises but the wine tasted rancid to me , he kept saying yes but its organic???

We have a wine shop in town which has wines for most price ranges there, though nothing super cheap. They run regular wine tasting sessions featuring some wines at around the £10 per bottle price point at them and they have been delicious. If the shop you went to isn't willing to sell wine at that price point, that's fine, but then they should commit to that. Better turn away a potential customer than sell then disappointing crap.

How annoying, he sounds like a complete snob. I wouldn't go there again.

I'm in Germany and wine that you'd see for £10+ in UK is a fiver max here. Funny really.
Also I now just buy German wine.

We certainly have 😁😂