Having grown up in Hungary’s most famous wine region in a family where growing grapes and producing wine were professions performed with enthusiasm, I find it interesting to examine some wine-consuming habits of today’s people. Moreover, I have not found many studies comparing Hungarian and British wine-consuming habits. Since cultured wine consumption began to develop only in the last few years and Great Britain’s position among wine-producing countries has been changing recently in an accelerated way, this up-to-date small-scale study might prove to be useful even in teaching cultural studies. Therefore, the main aim of the present thesis is to examine, compare and analyze certain wine-consuming habits in the north-east of Great Britain and in the north-east of Hungary.