Best-selling wines (in UK shops)

The list of top-selling wines is not, as could be expected, a particularly inspiring reading. Off License News, the English drinks magazine, makes a survey of the drinks business in the UK every year together with Nielsen. One of the statistics it presents is which wines sell best in British off-licenses (shops). Here are the top selling wines:

1. Blossom Hill (from Percy Fox, 1 first place last year, origin: various…)
2. Hardys (Constellation, 3, various)
3. Gallo Family Vineyards (Gallo, 2, various)
4. First Cape (Brand Phoenix, 9, South Africa)
5. Echo Falls (Constellation, 7, USA)
6. Jacob’s Creek (Pernod Ricard, 4, Australia)
7. Lindemans (Foster’s EMEA, 5, various)
8. Kumala (Constellation, 10, South Africa)
9. Stowells (Constellation, 8, various)
10. Wolf Blass (Foster’s EMEA, 6, Australia)

One can ponder whether it is a good thing or a bad thing that no European wine is on the top-ten list. The first European wines comes 13th: JP Chenet from France.

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