The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has called on the Chancellor to cut wine and spirit duty to combat both falling sales volumes and reduced revenue to the Exchequer ahead of the Spring Budget in March.
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has highlighted still wine hasn't been given a duty cut in 40 years, as part of its latest set of Budget asks to the Treasury.
A surprise rise in the UK's inflation rate last month - which took it to 4%, up from 3.9% in November - has been blamed on price rises on tobacco and alcohol, which itself has been fuelled by duty increases.
The wine trade has hit back at claims regarding the presence of pesticides in bottles of wine with the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) calling it "sensationalist".