Iceland receives complaint about Fat B*****d wine range

UK supermarket chain Iceland has received a complaint from a customer in Clydebank in Scotland, questioning the positioning of the Fat B*****d wine range stocked by the retailer.

The customer, twitter user @COOHEID, sent several tweets to Iceland, tagging a couple of journalists as well as local news site Clydebank Post. In the tweets, the user asked why Iceland believed it was acceptable to stock the Fat B*****d wine range at “child eye-level”.

The wine was spotted at a store in the Clydebank Shopping Centre located in Clydebank in Greater Glasgow. Iceland responded to the customer query, asking the user to send a direct message.

Children can pick up bad language from many sources. (Picture: Pinterest – Meet the Fockers)

Speaking to the Evening Times, an Iceland spokesman said: “Fat B*****d wine is a high-quality product which we have stocked for some time, and which is popular with our customers.”

“It’s name is humorous and certainly not intended to cause offence”.

Since the complaint has been covered in the press, some people have questioned why a child would be browsing the shelves in the alcohol section of the store.

Wherever you stand on the issue, product positioning at children’s eye-level is an interesting topic when one considers how it could influence parent purchasing.

Fat B*****d wine was created by friends and fellow winemakers Thierry Boudinaud and Guy Anderson. As the story goes, after conducting a barrel tasting of some of Anderson’s more experimental wines, Boudinaud was impressed by the affect of the lees ageing and exclaimed in a thick French accent: “Now this it what you call a fat b*****d”. British-born Anderson found Boudinaud’s pronunciation thoroughly amusing, and the name for their subsequent collaborative wine range was born.