compadre: feel free to make another comment when you have tried this wine otherwise your comment is like a bucket with a hole in the bottom (if i need to explain -doesn't hold water)

I have tried many wines like this, they are all overpriced (whether £8 or£30) some of the more expensive wines are good, but still overpriced due to the name attached. I feel I have enough experience, and spent enough money to comment. The reason for my input is just because of the way these are pushed to people who recognise the name and buy for special occasions, they would get a far better wine for this price, especially if you buy with a little research, and crucially something that's not always reduced.

I reserve the right to comment on whatever I like! That said my comments have been pertinent and people can have a think and make their own decisions. To me wine at £8 is still a considered purchase, and if people try different wines at a price point they will be surprised.
ps. What makes you think that every bottle of this will taste the same? Are they all the same vintage? Believe me the way these generic wines will be produced there will most likely be some variance between bottlings.
pps. At this price I am more than happy to 'miss out' and buy a village wine from the cotes du Rhône, and take my chances. Experience tells me I will be making the right choice.

Added link and pic, thanks for sharing

Basically £8 for a name, wine is probably very ordinary.
Notice how this wine is reduced on most Christmas's and Easter's.

I bought a bottle for £11 from Sainsbury last weekend. Nothing special. Drinkable but no better and no worse than a lot of cheaper bottles.

compadre: feel free to make another comment when you have tried this wine otherwise your comment is like a bucket with a hole in the bottom (if i need to explain -doesn't hold water)

I have tried many wines like this, they are all overpriced (whether £8 or£30) some of the more expensive wines are good, but still overpriced due to the name attached. I feel I have enough experience, and spent enough money to comment. The reason for my input is just because of the way these are pushed to people who recognise the name and buy for special occasions, they would get a far better wine for this price, especially if you buy with a little research, and crucially something that's not always reduced.

Hic !

it's a wine that you need to keep few years to grow for taste.... i know it's difficultoO

I doubt this would gain much by being laid down. Best way to describe it would be that its a generic CdP produced by some bottling firm in France. Likely produced from inferior grapes the big houses have rejected, but still harvested within the area covered by the appellation.

Sometimes these types of wine are ok, sometimes they're not - but as folks taste in wine is pretty subjective, another mans vinegar is another mans premier cru!

In my opinion (and the poster above) there's likely better to be had for your eight quid and I wouldn't buy this purely on the basis that its a Chateauneuf de Pape.