Wine imports harm trade

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34044, 7 January 1976, Page 10

Wine imports harm trade

f.V.Z. Press Association) i AUCKLAND. It was senseless that wines which were inferior to the local product continued to be im-i ported when New Zea-j land faced a balance-of-i payments crisis, said Mr: G. Mazuran. the president of the Viticulture! Association of New Zealand. Mr Mazuran said that thegreatest percentage ofimported wine was either inferior to local wine or of: equal quality. Wine importers brought in cheap wines in preference toi quality wines so that they, could buy more with their! import licences. Very little! imported wine was high class. Mr Mazuran said his association did not want!

(import controls on all imported w'ines. "We do not want the traffic stopped in high-quality wines of the world, but restriction on imported wines which are in competition with us,” he said. | Importing sub-standaid wines was unfair to the industry, and the association intended to make representations to the new Govern[ment. "When we have a type of wine now of acceptable quality why should we bring in inferior wines to compete against us? We can ill-afford to spend overseas funds on this.” Mr G. Fistonich, managing director of Villa Maria Wines, said he believed that New' Zealand wines would this year reach their highest • quality. ■ Last year there was an • increase in the quality and Iquantity of medium whites, and he believes dry reds will come into their own this year.

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