Please let us know whether you agree to all of these cookies. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Because this is the post-modern wine business. Come on down today! To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. One Dallas dollar store was selling $8 and $10 Beringer supermarket wines for $2.99 and $3.99 at the beginning of the year. $10 Hall of Fame wine Falesco Vitiano cuts distribution in the U.S. Treasury Wine Estate’s stock tanked at the beginning of February, Wine meme update: Let’s not forget about premiumization, Winebits 663: White Castle wine, legal weed, premiumization, Top U.S. wine executive: Let’s make wine so expensive no one will be able to afford it, Wine of the week: Chateau de Ribebon 2015. There is a hidden maxim that says if you make a $10 Cabernet and price it at $40-plus, you will cover your costs and make a profit on significantly less volume. Come and take a look here today on J D Wetherspoon that the drinks we have on offer at all of your local Wetherspoon pubs here. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. How can we have have excess supply and declining demand, and yet still see steady wine prices? Where’s the Hearty Burgundy? I was disappointed when Yalumba Y series moved from $6.66 to $9.99 wholesale, and then $14.99 retail. Case in point was a Dallas Kroger this week, when almost nothing was priced differently than normal — even previous vintage roses. Wetherspoon's new menu prices BELOW are some examples of Wetherspoon discounts available from tomorrow. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. That would make too much sense in a business that is not much connected to reality any more. Above are the latest Wetherspoons menu prices. Under the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, restaurants offered customers half price food and soft drinks on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in August and recouped the cash from the government. Lots of dumping and heavy discounting. The company either threw the wine out or sold it at deep discounts, often through non-wine outlets. The discounts will be available Monday to Wednesday from tomorrow, September 1, until November 11, in all pubs. So many producers spent so much money establishing their brands at $15 or $20 or $25 that they can’t “afford” to lower prices. Somehow, we’re at a point where the laws of economics don’t matter. Search again This week’s wine news: Wine ads are missing the point by emphasizing sex. So what will we see instead of consistently lower prices? This happened quite a bit during the recession, and it’s one way for a producer to protect a $25 brand. The 1,000-strong chain of pubs offer classic pub fare, too, including Christmas pudding, turkey pies, and cask ale, as well as low prices, and long operating hours. So, in the end, don’t expect your local retailer to lower prices. But the market for $40-plus wines is almost toosnobbish to admit that the $40 Cab is really only worth $10. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin said: "The government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme was extremely popular with our customers and a great boost to the hospitality industry. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Your local Wetherspoon will stock a wide variety of hot and cold drinks. During the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, Wetherspoon customers have been able to nab the pizza meal for £2.75, the burger meal for £2.50 and a traditional breakfast for £1.75.