Good Food Guide

Guides to good food, wine and eating places have turn out to be massive business. Egon Ronay’s ‘Guide to the Best Restaurants and Gastropubs within the UK’ which provides detailed opinions of over 500 restaurants and gastropubs has offered over 2 million copies. High quality wine guides are additionally an enormous vendor, with books comparable to Clarke’s ‘Nice Wine Guide: A Connoisseur’s Bible’ and Johnson-Bell’s ‘Good Food, Effective Wine: A Practical Guide to Finding the Excellent Match’ both readily available on the internet it is clear that there is a high demand for such guides.

Wine sales in the UK elevated 25% between 2001 and 2005. In 2004 the estimated wine consumption was 1.2 billion litres. California now produces 2 billion litres of wine yearly, making it the fourth greatest producer behind Italy, France and Spain. In 2004, New World wines accounted for over 55% of complete consumption in the UK.

Exports of New Zealand wines to the UK alone have elevated from 8.1 million litres in 1997 to 21.9 million litres in 2006.

Some figures place two-thirds of UK wines gross sales in supermarkets. Increased demand and competitors between large chain supermarkets have elevated the number of wines and producers and made them more accessible to the overall public.

A latest report by Vinexpo has predicted that the UK will turn into Europe’s biggest marketplace for wine by 2010. The report which examined the worlds wine producers and shoppers also predicted that by 2010 the UK wine gross sales can be worth £5.5 billion, despite the fact that the UK paid the best average price per bottle (£3.eleven), which is equal to 28.5 litres per capita in comparison with a mean of 27 litres between 2001 and 2005.