I was also surprised that these particular orders and regulations are not to apply to sparkling or fortified wine.
One feels it must be somewhat different from ordinary wine or different from fortified wine.
They will increase the charge on a standard bottle of table wine by about 5p, and on a bottle of fortified wine such as sherry by about 7p.
Sums of that order cannot be found from an increase in the duties on whisky and wine, or even on whisky, wine and fortified wine.
One is that there should be a range of duties on beer and fortified wine and spirits but that the duty on table wine should be optional.
It has also been theorized that he consumed large amounts of lead from illegally-fortified wine.
For drier fortified wine styles, such as sherry, the alcohol is added shortly before or after the end of the fermentation.
In some instances, fortified wine, such as sherry or port wine, is used.
