In readiness for this leap in prices, the TTWMB announced on May 2 that it would stop making Red Label Rice Wine, which has been on the market since 1950, and instead devote production to Aromatic Rice Wine, a cooking wine containing seasoning. But with the Tobacco and Wine Taxation Bill long in the offing, people had already begun buying up and hoarding rice wine.
為了因應米酒價格飆漲，菸酒公賣局五月二日宣佈停產自民國三十九年推出的紅標米酒，全面改以加了調味料的料理用稻香米酒供應，不過由於菸酒稅法草案即將通過的風聲早已傳出，早在公賣局宣佈停產之前，市場上即已上演米酒搶購及囤積風潮。