Hi, like you say its all down to taste
I generally go for wine from the southern hemisphere, for some reason they taste decent at a good price! in the uk!
Never really rated french wine sourced in the uk, but the french wine in france, even the cheap stuff is really nice, so kinda true that they only send the rubbish over!
New zealand wine is really nice and there are some nice Rioja's lurking about too
Favorite's are Australian wines but we are talking at the cheap end here!
We generally buy our wine at either tesco's asda or aldi
we buy the cheap stuff from aldi for our regular evening wine and if we see something elsewhere we will buy a decent one as a treat
The cheap stuff at aldi i think is better than the cheap stuff at the other stores and anything at the top end is hit or miss really, depending on price range.
I dont really have a bad word to say about aldi wine to be honest
If you have the time (perhaps a bit far for you!) go to france to the carrefour i was getting 10 litres for 12 euros and it was really nice stuff too ummm!
My mondeo boot was stuffed to the top! Sadly its all gone now
Obviously this is my oppinion so not to everybody's taste
Cheers