wine prices

[ludwig]

Does a �30 bottle of wine taste �25 better than a �5 bottle?

[woofgang]

depends who is doing the tasting and what the wine is. If it is me and the wine is fizz, then yes, definitely. Mr Woofganfg says the same thing about red.

[silly moo]

shouldn't have thought so.
If it's fizz woofgang can have my share.
I'm with the Queen & Jimmy Young on this one - don't like the stuff.

[brionon]

If you've a sweet tooth--buy the cheapest plonk you can find and add a little Cassis and call it Kir, reported to be the favourite drink of the French. And you don't need to use Cassis de Dijon, any old Cassis will do.

[acw]

To my knowledge -  champagne and cassis is called a kir royale. 

 

As to the actual question - all i can advise is not to mix the �25 and the �5 in the same glass in the hope of upgrading to a �30!!!  Whether or not it tastes 6 times better I don't know.  I somehow doubt it. 

[catra1]

instead of creme de cassis try creme de mure (blackberries) it tastes loads better....I discovered it when the french were queued for the mure rather than the cassis at a big french fete one year.

[BigDogsWang]

The short answer should be 'yes', so long as the �30der hasn't corked! I have drunk Red for over 20 years, and I suppose in that time I have got to know a good one from a cheap one. Don't get me wrong, you can get perfectly drinkable �5 or under vino's. But this tends to be more of a light, easy drinking wine.

If you haven't tried an expensive bottle yet, take the plunge, but make sure you allow a good hour or so for the wine to breath after opening. A good idea is to brush your tongue (especially if you smoke) first, and eat something rich or spicy with it, like a good Chorizo or some Parma Ham.

Enjoy!

[ludwig]

Thanks for all your answers.

[Pinotage]

There is a flat rate tax on wine. Thus the cheaper a bottle of wine, the higher is the proportion of tax. On a �5 bottle, about half that will be tax (I'm too lazy to look up the exact figure) then you've got the cost f the bottle, growing and making it, the growers, makers and shops profit margin.

Pay double for the wine and you'll be getting almost an extra �5 worth of wine.

But there's a limit to how much it costs to make a wine, and as wine pricers get high you're not paying for the contents as much as its name or scarcity value.