Why is Californian wine - or any other wine for that matter - expensive in the UK? It's not Tesco's fault! The UK has the highest duty (tax) on wine in Europe. Then there is VAT (another tax) on the duty. That's right - a tax on a tax! Today in the UK, 53% of a £5 bottle of wine is tax. It's not cheap to shift it across the Atlantic either.
In the UK, if you spend £5 on a bottle retail, the cost of the wine from source is under £1. Spend £10 and the cost price of the wine goes up fourfold, assuming similar shipping costs and % margin. Not that £10 for a four quid wine is a particularly good deal either, in my opinion.
Amen to that! It literally means to remove one in ten: i.e. cut by 10%. But literally no longer means what it should so we can all use any word in any way we want. It's all bollocks. Or do I mean confusing?
I shouldn't worry. All the people I have seen - and I admit that it's not many - who are involved in this travesty of a sport appear brain dead anyway.
In the UK, if you spend £5 on a bottle retail, the cost of the wine from source is under £1. Spend £10 and the cost price of the wine goes up fourfold, assuming similar shipping costs and % margin. Not that £10 for a four quid wine is a particularly good deal either, in my opinion.