Wine prices

Really low.

We buy the wine for communion. Real wine, with a bottle, a cork to pull and a common cup. I really haven't got a clue, but someone told me that all the 2003 Côtes de Blaye and Côtes de Bourg are good, so we have been buying them for communion now for about a year. The price has generally been around 4 to 5 euros a bottle. That's roughly £2.50 - £3.00. That seems cheap to me. *

But it also means that I am aware of the prices of the wines in general - and at present it is not at all unusual to see Bordeaux priced at 2,50 € to 3 €. That's under £2 a bottle.

That can't be economic to produce. Can it?

* in fact recently I decided that it is too cheap - so I have upped my price bracket for communion wine to around 8 € a bottle (about £5). Last of the big spenders, eh! 8 € means a Médoc, and someone else told me that there has never been a bad Médoc!

p.s. Someone from church reads the blog - perhaps he'll come up now and say "so that's why the communion wine is always like drain cleaner!"

Comments

Anonymous said…
just out of interest Alan - how many botles do you get through at your communion services/ Or do you have it everyday - everyweek or what? fancy puting a Welshman in charge of wine purchasing!
10:15 am
Alan said…
Welcome Chris!

Half a bottle, roughly. Communion is every week.

It's literally just a sip, so people might not notice even if (when?) the wine is dodgy!
11:25 am
Anonymous said…
Chris, you might wonder why all of the communicants wait outside the door during the service and then make a timely arrival for communion. But then again, you might not!
12:55 pm
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