TERRITORIANS are continuing to voice outrage over the NT Government’s recently introduced floor price on booze — with a NT News poll showing four in five peopleobject to the price hike.

Under the new legislation, there’s a minimum charge of $1.30 per standard drink in the NT, meaning a two-litre cask of wine containing 21.4 standard drinks can’t be sold for less than $27.82.

NT attorney-general Natasha Fyles declined to comment about the NT News’ results, but said the Gunner Government would evaluate the grog policy in three years to make sure it was hitting its target.

“Of course our alcohol reforms will be evaluated to ensure they are tackling alcohol fuelled violence and crime,” she said.

Yesterday, online wine store Naked Wines announced it would no longer be able to serve Territorians booze, as the floor price policy made business too challenging.

Ms Fyles didn’t answer questions about if there should be an exception in the policy for online retailers.

“All retailers are welcome to distribute to the Territory if their product meets the floor price of $1.30 per standard drink,” she said.

“Thus far 48 companies have agreed to distribute to the Northern Territory and that list is growing.” Naked Wines wine director Mark Pollard said its business model revolved around it selling wine at a certain price.

“The whole premise of the business model doesn’t work any longer,” he said.

Mr Pollard also said Naked Wines gave its customers wine for free as benefits, which under the new legislation it was no longer able to do.

To keep operating in the NT, Mr Pollard said his business would have to make substantial changes to the back end of its business, costing it tens of thousands. “The cost of that is ridiculous,” he said.

Mr Pollard said he’d love to continue doing business with the Territory, and if the legislation changed, he would continue working in the NT.

While it was impossible to know for sure, Mr Pollard said he doubted his customers were the problem drinkers the floor price intended to target.

“I would assume that based on our average sell price of $150 a case, that’s not the target,” he said.

Mr Pollard said their business was not consulted prior to the introduction of the policy, even though it had served hundreds of Territorians over about six years.

The NT News understands Get Wines Direct will continue serving Territory customers.