Hi, I appreciate your point here, £5 buys total slush in the UK, but you don't seem to be considering the benefits of 5 bottles of wine at £10 ! or two at £25 !!
Unless you have a more advanced palate than even the master himself did (Keith Floyd) then you will probably find that after the first very good mouthful of wine your palate is not capable of appreciating a wine of that kind of caliber anymore. Any further enjoyment is probably more down to psychological associations with the £50 price tag than the genuine flavor and texture that you can taste and feel.
I am a gastronaut and as such only ever eat and drink food that is worthy of my consumption as life is too short to cheat oneself out of good and healthy food. As a shooting man im sure that your well aware that good food does not have to cost very much money. With people starving around the world I appreciate that we are very lucky to have had the fortune to live in a part of the world where food is available and plentiful and where we can choose what we eat.
Im sorry but you have not convinced me with your statement there, please do not take this personally, but, spending £50 on a bottle of wine is a rather Wan***y thing to do in my opinion and can only be justified if one has money to winkle away or is just utterly pretentious. I think that spending £50 on a bottle of wine is a shocking and wrong thing to do and id far rather spend £10 on some good wine and the rest on the kids, wife, and the dog. Assuming that I was married with kids and actually had a dog !
Kind regards, Olaf