My 2 cents... If the government was really interested in relieving the consumer the burden of the taxes and putting it into immediate effect, they should / could rebate the duties and taxes of the wines (my topic) to the wine companies that are holding, and able to prove, stock that entered Thailand under the 'old' system of taxies and duties. That would / should allow the drop in prices to show immediately versus wine merchants needing to sell off their current, taxed and levied, wines. Until the merchandise on hand sells through the new pricing won' / can't show up on the retail shelves and restaurant wine lists. To a couple of other points - 'fruit wine' - this is a category and device that allowed lower taxation. My contention is that no fruit was ever added to imported wines - it was just a device latched onto by savvy marketers and exporters by adding the words or suggesting fruit or fruit aroma / flavors on the label. Further I think the Thai government latched onto this idea, way back when wines started gaining a market here, by looking to China which was importing a lot of wine and also had domestic wines from Chinese vineyards that the Chinese like to "juice up" with fruit juices and aromatics. And last, wines from Chile or other origins that are cheaper, due to a tax agreement or entering as 'fruit wine' taxation scheme are not plonk wines. Very good, unadulterated, good value table wines. Praying they eliminate the no buying hours in stores and restaurants. Seems like I always want to buy wine during those hours and a bloody nuisance cannot.