Low-alcohol wine to help cut drinkingBy James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:56am GMT 25/03/2008
Middle-class drinkers will be encouraged to switch to low-alcohol wines as part of government plans to reduce problem drinking.
Ministers are putting pressure on the European Commission to relax strict rules on wine making, in order to make it easier for producers to sell wines with alcohol content as low as 6.5 per cent.
European Union rules in effect ban the sale of most low-strength wines, and the Food Standards Agency has had to impound some low-alcohol wines brought to Britain for sale in recent years.
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