Not wine

[Piemaster]

Just had some friends around - a few drinks and a chinese takeaway night. One of them had brought a bottle of 'The shy pig' along, which became the 2nd bottle of the evening opened.
Only looking at the bottle on the table (which is most definitely a wine bottle) noticed it didn't have 'wine' on it anywhere. 'wine style drink' 10.5% ABV and references to 'Australia vintage' - which is what made me look twice at the label in the first place. Australia Vintage seems to be the brand, not a reference to the contents.

Lady that brought it didn't seem bothered, mostly as she was attracted by it having a pig on the label (she likes pigs) and having drunk most of the first bottle, a Pinot, but it seems deliberately misleading to me. The wine industry doesn't seem to like it much either link

 

[summerdays]

Just had some friends around - a few drinks and a chinese takeaway night. One of them had brought a bottle of 'The shy pig' along, which became the 2nd bottle of the evening opened.
Only looking at the bottle on the table (which is most definitely a wine bottle) noticed it didn't have 'wine' on it anywhere. 'wine style drink' 10.5% ABV and references to 'Australia vintage' - which is what made me look twice at the label in the first place. Australia Vintage seems to be the brand, not a reference to the contents.

Lady that brought it didn't seem bothered, mostly as she was attracted by it having a pig on the label (she likes pigs) and having drunk most of the first bottle, a Pinot, but it seems deliberately misleading to me. The wine industry doesn't seem to like it much either link

My daughter has been raving about it, but then she's only just started drinking any sort of wine (she's 20), and up till now has preferred her alcohol in different formats. She bought it for the label too. I'm still a bit confused as to what it is. But I remember buying a wine style drink in Aldi.... Can't remember exactly what it said but it was only when I was at home and not liking the flavour that I realised my mistake.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Cute label. Thanks for the warning.

 

[winjim]

For £3.47 I don't think I'd much care for it either.

 

[Tin Pot]

Abomination.

 

[vernon]

Someone ought to challenge Morrisons' product description in their online blurb

Other Information
Full Product Name:
White Australian Wine

 

[FrankCrank]

....when I'm back in the UK I like to buy and drink wine there, as it's much more expensive here in Thailand due to taxation. I get all my wine there from Morrisons as it's the nearest supermarket, and always from the 'fiver or less' stack. Tried many different types, never had a bad one, and so baffled why anyone would buy this 'shy pig' stuff instead.
Mind you, when I first started drinking wine yonks ago I use to think Liebfraumilch and Lambrusco were good wines ..........and do they still do Blue Nun?...

Heaps of snobbery around the whole wine scene, but you can't go wrong with a nice Chilean red for a fiver, just wish they were that price here.......

 

[Piemaster]

As @FrankCrank says, there are decent wines available without paying a fortune, or even much more than they are charging for this stuff, so I'm not sure why anyone would buy it - apart from not realising.
On the other hand my wife has a friend who only drinks Lambrini. Bleurgh.

 

[winjim]

I try and spend at least six quid on a bottle of wine. It's the tipping point where the wine itself becomes worth more than the tax and duty paid on it.

 

[Lullabelle]

....when I'm back in the UK I like to buy and drink wine there, as it's much more expensive here in Thailand due to taxation. I get all my wine there from Morrisons as it's the nearest supermarket, and always from the 'fiver or less' stack. Tried many different types, never had a bad one, and so baffled why anyone would buy this 'shy pig' stuff instead.
Mind you, when I first started drinking wine yonks ago I use to think Liebfraumilch and Lambrusco were good wines ..........and do they still do Blue Nun?...

Heaps of snobbery around the whole wine scene, but you can't go wrong with a nice Chilean red for a fiver, just wish they were that price here.......

We have taken to Chilean wine, they make a cracking Merlot.

 

[Crackle]

I like a good whine.

 

[MossCommuter]

It's not even Australian.

Produced for:
Australian Vintage (Europe) Limited,
Surrey,
CR0 6BA.

At:
CH2 4LF,
UK.

 

[stephec]

[QUOTE 3982434, member: 259"]I remember reading about this - it's just watered down wine isn't it? I know people who add water to red wine as it's too strong for them.[/QUOTE]
I'm no wine snob but,

Haven't they tried Valpolicella?

 

[swee'pea99]

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity, as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palette, but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

'Black stump Bordeaux' is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good 'Sydney Syrup' can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

'Chateau Bleu', too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

'Old Smokey, 1968' has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian wino society thouroughly recommends a 1970 'Coq du Rod Laver', which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this, and you're really finished -- at the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 'Perth Pink'. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is 'Melbourne Old-and-Yellow', which is particularly heavy, and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of 'Chateau Chunder', which is an Appalachian controle, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation -- a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a 'Hobart Muddy', and a prize winning 'Cuiver Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga', which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

 

[FrankCrank]

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity, as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palette, but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

'Black stump Bordeaux' is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good 'Sydney Syrup' can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

'Chateau Bleu', too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

'Old Smokey, 1968' has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian wino society thouroughly recommends a 1970 'Coq du Rod Laver', which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this, and you're really finished -- at the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 'Perth Pink'. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is 'Melbourne Old-and-Yellow', which is particularly heavy, and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of 'Chateau Chunder', which is an Appalachian controle, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation -- a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a 'Hobart Muddy', and a prize winning 'Cuiver Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga', which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

........yeah.........but do they have a cork or a screw-cap?..........