Thank you for your comment, Mike. You can get good German wine from British supermarkets, Waitrose for instance has some and Sainsbury's also offer the odd one, depending on which branch you shop at. Sadly, most German wines at Sainsbury's are from the dreaded selection of Blue Nun, Liebfraumilch and Piesporter though.
You'd be surprised how well these wines still sell. Not only do they tend to be cheap, there is also a market for off-dry whites. In 2010 for instance, the UK off trade’s No. 1 best selling non-Italian Pinot came from Germany, and it is made in an off-dry style. I forgot where it was in the Pinot Grigio rankings overall but it did do reasonably well compared to some Italian brands too. The UK is still a large importer of sweet and off-dry German wines. Now, I don't mind that as Germany makes some of the best sweet and off-dry wines in the world, but the UK buys a significant amount of the cheap variety, and those are not very cheerful...
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Cheap, not cheerful
Thank you for your comment, Mike. You can get good German wine from British supermarkets, Waitrose for instance has some and Sainsbury's also offer the odd one, depending on which branch you shop at. Sadly, most German wines at Sainsbury's are from the dreaded selection of Blue Nun, Liebfraumilch and Piesporter though.
You'd be surprised how well these wines still sell. Not only do they tend to be cheap, there is also a market for off-dry whites. In 2010 for instance, the UK off trade’s No. 1 best selling non-Italian Pinot came from Germany, and it is made in an off-dry style. I forgot where it was in the Pinot Grigio rankings overall but it did do reasonably well compared to some Italian brands too. The UK is still a large importer of sweet and off-dry German wines. Now, I don't mind that as Germany makes some of the best sweet and off-dry wines in the world, but the UK buys a significant amount of the cheap variety, and those are not very cheerful...