Most supermarkets offer significant discounts for customers buying bottles of wine by the dozen or half-dozen. Sainsbury’s and Waitrose, for example, regularly offer a 25 per cent discount for six bottles of wine.
Ministers believe such promotions give customers a financial incentive to purchase more alcohol than they intended to buy and should be banned.
The plans, being driven by David Cameron, have raised fears that middle-class households will bear the brunt of measures supposedly aimed at troublemaking youths and other anti-social drinkers.
The measures will include a new minimum price for alcohol as ministers try to reduce what they say is irresponsible drinking.
They say new curbs on sales are required because of the growing problems of crime and illness caused by alcohol consumption. The most recent figures show the NHS treats more than 1.1 million people every year as a result of the effects of alcohol.

It couldn't possibly be that people keep the extra wine and drink it over a long period of time rather than binge drink it.....

It couldn't possibly be that people keep the extra wine and drink it over a long period of time rather than binge drink it.....

The women I know were drinking that sh1t anyway

The offers are often on really good wine. I tend to buy the half-price rather than the multi-buys though, partly due to storage issues but also because they tend to be better discounts.

You do have to check though, because often the "half price" wine was cheaper a few months earlier. It helps if you know what you like already, but that's not entirely possible if you want to try something new.