(Sadly, due to economic reasons, my bookshop work will end in December, too, so I'm actually starting to panic: no one is hiring. 
)I have no idea about the prices of these wines in Finland, but they seem to sell for US $11-15. Good value at that price if you're into the weightier wines!
Bodegas Eguren "Mercedes Eguren" Shiraz-Tempranillo 2007 Vino de la Tierra de Castilla
14% abv; 50% Shiraz, 50% Tempranillo. A part of Heredad Ugarte. This is a rather inexpensive wine (below US $15 in most markets IIRC). Rich and buxom, it begins with a rather strange scent of rhubarb jam, but it calms down after a half-hour or so and starts to smell of Shiraz. Not Syrah. (Nor do I see the Tempranillo anywhere in there.) Dark fruit, almost jammy sweetness, a slight touch of vanilla from six months in American oak (but really a touch, not something that I would find terribly off-putting). Full body, sweet fruit, but well structured. But it does seem like a more restrained Aussie Shiraz than say an OTT Barossa, but still this isn't my preferred style. I can imagine many will find the great value, however.
Bodegas Eguren "Mercedes Eguren" Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 Vino de la Tierra de Castilla
14% abv; 100% CS; 6 months in American oak. A very ripe and fruity wine but it does have some of the herbaceous lift, pencil shaving and baked bean aroma I hope to see in the grape. Full body, sweet, pleasantly noticeable acidity, soft tannins that crispen the finish. If one enjoys the bigger style of Cab, this isn't bad at all and should be good QPR.
More to my taste were the outstandingly pure brandies from a collaboration between Gölles and Reisetbauer. Gölles is well known for both vinegars and distillates; Reisetbauer is considered one of the best distillers of Austria (I think Jamie Goode did a report on them a few years back?). This is a new venture from them where they dilute the brandies to 25% abv - all the bottles are "pure x-brandy, pure spring water and nothing else".
To my taste the dilution worked very well; others at the tasting were more critical saying the results were too watery and lacked the power of what they wanted in brandy.
I tried the 25 Willy (from Williams Pear), 25 Cherry, 25 Moscato, 25 Apricot, 25 Plum and 25 Granny. There isn't much point in writing individual notes on these spirits because they all smelled of the pure fruit itself! They were kind of obvious in that way but also terribly elegant (though again, some thought the elegance was only over-dilution!). The apricot was a bit sweet and jammy for me; the Moscato might just have been my favourite because it smelled like a very mineral, even appley expression of Moscato d'Asti - it was such a likeness in aroma that I was half-expecting fizz!
