Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the job description of PR is to grease the wheels and ensure clients get good media coverage.
This old mutt reckons that in this situation, the prices of wine in our supermarkets might fall, at least a tiny bit, but this doesn't appear to be the case.
So, what's happening, are the winemakers holding up their prices or, more likely, are the wholesalers and retailers leaving the RRPs where they were and fattening their margins?
It would be interesting to find out the truth, but these days, truth is a very scarce commodity.
The only answer to good, cheap wine may be finding out that recipe of two thousand or more years ago of instantly turning water into wine.
