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I think it is fair to say that the developing Irish wine market has hit something of a snag. Thanks to the unbalanced and, quite frankly, bizarre new tax on wine, all of our small retailers will have to increase the cost of wine in their shops at various stages between now and the New Year as their duty-paid stock runs out. This means that their customers will see various price increases per bottle, as many of the big supermarkets may very well hold their price, either by losing margin or by negotiating better deals with the big wholesalers. That some wine shops will close is certain, as the difference between what they can offer their customers and the below-cost selling of the supermarkets widens even further.

Award-winning wine importer Wines Direct started as a hobby for its owner and managing director Paddy Keogh. In 1991 Paddy started to import some of the interesting, ‘hard to get’ wines that he had encountered on his regular trips to Bordeaux, and the rest is history. Wines Direct now stocks a whopping range of over 300 wines from all around the world, all of which are sourced from small, family-owned artisan growers. In purchasing their wines directly from the producer, they also eliminate many unnecessary layers of expense found in the wine trade.