On a comparable measure of imported table wine, the duty and tax is about 9·5p.
I refer to table wine, not vintage wine.
The regulations require that there shall not be a vintage for "table wine" although wine is produced in individual years.
There is no suggestion that the duties on beer or table wine should be charged with duty related to the degree of alcoholic content.
I begin with quality wine versus table wine labelling.
There are two major producing countries who have no duty on table wine.
The excise duty per centilitre of pure alcohol would be about 10·2p for a typical beer or table wine, arid 17·35p for spirits.
Years ago the amount was expressed in terms of half pints of beer, single measures of whisky, glasses of table wine and so forth.
