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Survey Says Wine Becomes Britain’s Favourite Alcoholic Drink

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13/08/2019 Wine trumps beer and spirits in Britain

Survey claims that 81% of adults said they drank wine last year.

This contrasted with 71% who delighted in lager and spirits. The discovery comes as the wine business dispatches a crusade approaching Chancellor Sajid Javid to quit punishing its 33 million consumers. 

In the most recent decade, charges on wine have ascended by almost 40 percent. Be that as it may, they expanded by just 16 percent on brew and 27 percent on spirits.

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Statistical surveying firm YouGov studied in excess of 2,000 grown-ups. Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio were joint most loved wines, trailed by Malbec, Shiraz and Prosecco. 

In 2015, it revealed that wine was the favored beverage for more 25 to 34-year-olds than any time in recent memory. 

Wine author and The Three Drinkers TV show moderator Helena Nicklin stated: "These discoveries put to bed the obsolete generalization of wine as a preserve of the middle classes.

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