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The principles of fairtrade have always been closely linked to the church, so it might be a surprise to know that until now, no fairtrade communion wine has been available in Britain.

But that's now changed as Staffordshire wine-merchant Francis Peel, of Whitebridge Wines in Stone, has just imported what he claims is the world's first fairtrade communion wine.

It's called Poterion Fairtrade and the wine comes from Los Robles Winery, in Curicó, Chile.

Church Canon Law dictates that communion wine should be "the fermented juice of the grape, good and wholesome".

But as wine expert Peel explains to BBC Radio Stoke's Faith Producer Lamont Howie, as a regular communion wine server at his own church he has, for years, had to tolerate the taste of indifferent wines.