Ms Evelyn Jones:

There is excise duty of €5.04 on a €10 bottle of wine. As members can imagine, it is difficult for us to provide a bottle of wine for €7.50. If consumers demand a bottle of wine costing no more than €7.50, for example - and they do - the quality of wine will decrease. The tax is the same and the distribution costs are the same, so the quality of the product will decrease. It is reminiscent of what happened with beef burgers recently.