date:Feb 19, 2013
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Some 59% said they expected to sell more New World wine this year, while four in ten merchants identified low-alcohol wines as a category they will expand in 2013.
The results were compiled following personal interviews with more than 120 independent retailers across the UK, making the project the largest of its kind to be undertaken within the independent sector.
It shows consumers are turning to their local independent for higher-priced wines