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Cheap and Expensive Wine Taste the Same in Blind Taste Tests

Wine is a multi-billion dollar industry part of the modern world. There are stores devoted just to selling wine, magazines devoted to it, wineries are a major tourist destination, and so on. And yet, weirdly, we know that much of this is [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Cheap wine 'good as pricier bottles' - blind taste test

The blind test at the Edinburgh Science Festival saw 578 members of the public correctly identify the "cheap" or "expensive" wines only 50% of the time. They tasted a range of red and white wines including merlot and [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine is getting cheaper - NZ Wine Company

Prices for bottled wine, grapes and vineyard land are falling, according to The New Zealand Wine Company Ltd. The maker of Grove Mill, Sanctuary and Frog Haven brands is listed on the NZAX and held its annual meeting today. The problem i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Cheap wines apparently taste good in recession

Sales of low-priced wine are being buoyed by thrifty consumers, who are drinking at home more often instead of dining out. Particularly popular are domestic wines ranging in price from ¥500 to ¥1,000, prompting bottlers to promote [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Wine review - Cheap and cheerful

A pile of barbecued sausages. A dish of hot new potatoes slathered in butter. Four people, a table on the grass and two different bottles of wine, one of which has been bought (by someone else) as a treat. I take a sip of the expensive wine [...]

Posted On : Aug, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

A toast to cheaper B.C. wine prices

The construction sector may be taking the brunt of the economic storm but another B.C. industry -- one that's made our province famous -- is also being battered. The amount of wine being consumed around the world is down, and hard times in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Kiwis cheer up and raise glasses to cheaper wine

Whining about food prices? At least one thing has gone down - the cost of a tipple.Researchers at Lincoln University are advising people to cheer up after they found a significant drop in the price of wine. The head of marketing for [...]