Maynards Bassetts Wine Gums Carton - 350g

Wine Gums in Canada are one of those things where the British version and the local version are not really the same conversation. Maynards Bassetts Wine Gums are the ones people mean when they say Wine Gums, full stop, and this 350g carton is the format most people remember pulling apart on a long car journey or rationing through a Sunday afternoon.

The carton holds the classic Maynards Bassetts Wine Gums in their familiar chewy, firm-set style, shaped and coloured by flavour in the way they have always been. Not too soft, not too hard, and with that slightly grown-up fruitiness that made them feel like a more serious sweet than whatever else was in the bag. The 350g size is generous enough to share, though historically that has proved optimistic.

For British expats, this is the sort of product that turns up in care packages and gets immediately hidden from the rest of the household. The Great British Shop imports them directly from the UK, so there is no need to wait on a parcel from home or negotiate with a suitcase. They ship from Canada, which is a sentence that would have seemed quite unlikely to anyone who grew up queuing for these at a newsagent.

Maynards Bassetts Wine Gums are dairy-free, which makes them one of those reliably shareable sweets that works across a wider group without anyone having to check the packet twice. They are made in the United Kingdom, and the 350g carton is the classic retail format rather than a pick-and-mix approximation.

Shop more Maynards in Canada or browse the full range of British sweets available to order from The Great British Shop.