Alcohol released for consumption – April 2008
(UK Customs clearances)Please read the tables below in conjunction with the notes.
April 2008
April 2008
% Change on April2007
Total
April 2007 to April 2008
% Change on 12 months previously
Still Wine in hectolitres (i.e. 100litres)
Still wine under 15%alc
800,624
-18.3%
12,563,935
5.9%
Sparkling Wine
39,047
-23.4%
834,010
10.1%
wine over 15%alc
14,807
-21.6%
320,037
4.0%
Total Wine
854,477
-18.6%
13,717,983
6.1%
Made Wine in hectolitres (i.e. 100litres)
Made wine 1.2% to 5.5%alc
41,846
-26.7%
686,464
18.3%
Made Wine 5.5 to 15%alcstill
18,736
-4.8%
355,778
9.6%
Made wine 5.5 to 15%alc sparkling
143
-10.3%
9,481
943.8%
Total Made Wine
60,725
-21.0%
1,051,724
16.1%
Spirits in hectolitres of alcohol (at 100%alc)
Home produced whisky
10,494
-44.5%
287,931
0.9%
Spirit based RTDs
1,618
-64.6%
46,132
-27.3%
imported and other spirits
43,278
-23.5%
828,655
3.7%
Total Spirits
55,390
-30.8%
1,162,718
1.3%
The tables show the quantities of wines and spirits taken out of bond and released for home consumption in the UK. Cross-channel shopping and smuggling are therefore not covered. The latest month is shown together with the percentage difference against the same month of the previous year. In addition, the annual total is compared with that a year earlier to give a more stable measure of change.
For wine, quantities are in Hectolitres (Hl); 1 Hl is 100 litres, where a case of standard bottles is 9 litres. For spirits quantities are shown in hectolitres of pure alcohol (LPA). A case of standard spirit bottles (70 cl) at 40% vol. Will contain 3.36 litres of pure alcohol
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