date:Aug 26, 2013
unted for 18% of wines sold and had 45% sold below the proposed base price. Chile could also be hit hard, accounting for 9% of off-tradesales but with 64% of wines below 50p per unit.
These figures show that European wine producers were right to raise their objections about the impact minimum unit pricing could have on their products, said the UKWine Spirit Trade Associations chief executive, Miles Beale.
It shows that wine from Italy and Spain would be disproportionately affected by a 50p mi