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There’s an awful lot of poor wine around, made in large factories by faceless corporations – approximately 85% of the entire UK wine market would you believe? It’s our aim to champion the small producer who still makes wine as it was meant to be, with pride and passion. We want to give you an honest opinion of what the wine’s really like, and most important of all – the places where you can still buy good wine at the right price in this current market.

Let us know what you think, as we’re kicking off with reviews of what we’ve been drinking recently!

At last the truth about the supermarkets and inferior wines has been made public in the C4 programme Dispatches. The chemicals and additives which are put into these wines have to be seen to be believed. We independent quality wine merchants have been saying for years about their dubious strategies of over inflating prices to subsequently appear to offer unbelievable half price deals on wines which are frankly very poor quality. Basically deceiving the public, but because they are corporate giants and wine is a multi billion pound industry for them, they’re allowed to get away with it. You will be shocked when you read what is actually put into these cheap brands! Read about it from the Daily Mail’s coverage here

Or from The Sun here

Watch the Dispatches episode here