john west++++ wrote:
|living in london u.k. the cheapest wine here i have seen is 6 around
|dollars.

Some of that price is bound to be due to tariffs or 'sin' taxes raising
the price of (real) wine sky high.

For fine wines that are truly domestic to the state of Oregon, the
consumer ought to be expected to pony up $7.95 or up for something as
nice as Honeywood's Blackberry or Raspberry wine. However, fine grape
wines are double, triple that (and however much more aged they are, a
respectfully higher price ought to be expected).

Unless there is something I don't know about, the price of a packet of
Sweet'n'Low (saccharin) or Equal (Aspartame) or some of the newer
sweeteners like sucralose ought to be an acceptable alternative for
making some of those really cheap 'unbearable' wines more palatable.

Say, does London, UK have rotguts like "Mad Dog" (various fruit-flavored
beverages made by Mogen-David) or "Night Train" (ugh, echhh) that you
could add an artificial sweetener to?