Why Mocktails Remain So Popular
Spirit-free cocktails have most definitely hit the mainstream. Mocktails made the top 10 of Yelp’s 2023 Food Trends. The crowd-sourced local business reviews platform reports that searches for mocktails were up 59%.
The 2023 Bacardi...
Wine Reviews: South American Wines
For this panel, we asked our wine panelists to taste and rate South American wines. These can be any style and from anywhere in the popular region.
As always, these selections include brief tasting notes,...
Podcast: Whiskey and Tequila Trends and Travels
What's the latest trends in whiskey and tequila, two of the hottest alcohol categories? Editors Melissa Dowling and Kyle Swartz recall what they observed in these two trendy categories during several recent media trips...
Our 2023 Spirits Supplier of the Year: Brown-Forman
Brown-Forman Corp. has seen a lot in 153 years, from World Wars, Prohibition and pandemics to what it calls "the dark ages for dark spirits.” That’s the period from 1965 to 2000, when sales...
Rum Trends in 2023
Consumer trends in the alcohol industry have shifted significantly in recent years and the rum category has evolved accordingly. The Covid-19 crisis has even more people focused on health and wellness, while the influence...
The 2023 Growth Brands Hall of Famers
Our Growth Brands Awards recognize the top products and suppliers in the beverage alcohol business each year. The April issue of Beverage Dynamics magazine highlighted the fastest-growing and top-selling spirits and wine brands. Now,...
Vodka Trends in 2023
Vodka remains a robust alcohol category. With 80.6 million 9-liter cases sold in the U.S. last year (according to our data team at the Beverage Information and Insights Group), vodka’s size can be to...
The Top Gin Trends in 2023
Over the centuries since its inception, gin has experienced a meteoric rise and fall. In the eighteenth century, it was branded "mother’s ruin” and "opium of the people,” and comprised the majority of the...
The 2023 Wine Growth Brands Awards: The Top Bottles
After some slight ups and downs during the first three years of the pandemic, total wine consumption took a dip in 2022. It decreased 1.1% last year to 344.1 million 9-liter cases, according to...
Our Wine Panel Reviews Spring and Summer Wines
For our next wine panel, we asked panelists to taste and rate spring and summer wines. These can be any style and from anywhere in the world, so long as they fit the warmer...