Campaign for Real Wine

[Gromit]

"Some wine brands are little better than alcopops dressed up with flavourings and fancy labels, an investigation claims.

Producers use a host of additives to disguise the flavour or inferior grapes without listing them on the labels. In some cases, they are creating so-called 'Frankenstein wines' bulked up with water, sugar and even hydrochloric acid.

In addition, supermarkets stand accused of artificially inflating the price of wine to make discounts seem larger and more attractive.

The wine industry has an exemption from food and drink labelling rules which means it does not have to list the additives - often used so that vast quantities of wine can all be made to taste the same."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-105582 0/Why-selling-wines-alcopops-dressed-flavourin gs-fancy-labels.html

Rip off, or good business if the customer cannot tell the difference?

[funnygirl]

You should watch Dispatches tonight at 8pm.

It all about what goes into your bottle of wine!!!

[trionam]

Having watched dispatches last night I thought it was a real eye opener they interviewed a guy from the british wine association he came across as a right idiot saying we could find out what was in the wine by contacting the producers and checking websites ect.Ok Im going to buy a bottle of Jacobs creek so hang on let me just get them on the phone there to ask them whats in it what nonsense their basic principle is if we knew what was really in it we wouldnt buy it.