News & Notes

Interview: Helping Retailers Locate Hard-To-Find Products With SevenFifty

The alcohol industry continues to digitize. Customers can already buy wine, beer, or spirits from their Smartphones to be delivered to their doors. So why shouldn't retailers enjoy similar ease-of-access when locating products in wholesale? SevenFifty is a new digital service that seeks...

Sazerac Acquires The Last Drop Distillers

The Sazerac Company today announced its purchase of The Last Drop Distillers. This acquisition will allow Sazerac to extend its portfolio into the super-premium craft market, the company says in a press release. as well as expand...

New Ice Cube Tech Detects When Drinks Are Finished and How Many You’ve Had

That high-tech ice cube in your cocktail is looking out for you. The vermouth brand Martini has launched a new ice-cube shaped device, Smart Cube, that can be added to drinks in addition to traditional ice. As guests consume...

Copper & Kings Apple Brandy 3 Marlenas

Louisville-based Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. is launching the limited-release artisanal five-year-old Apple Brandy 3 Marlenas. Matured two years in Tequila barrels, the non-chill filtered spirit is unadulterated by any post-distillation infusion of apple...

Dogfish Head Unveils New Packaging

Dogfish Head beers will soon look quite different. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has unveiled a new packaging design that "brings focus to the creativity, high quality and often-rare ingredients" that go into their portfolio of beers, the company says...

Snake River Horizon Gin

Zodiac Spirits, owner of Zodiac Craft Potato Vodka, has launched Snake River Horizon Gin. Like the flagship vodka brand, Horizon is a potato-based spirit produced ‘farm to bottle’ in Idaho. Horizon employs a "single source...

The Rise Of Craft Cocktail Mixers

Editor's Note: As part of our efforts to also cover on-premise trends, which inevitably affect off-premise sales, we occasionally post stories published by our sister publication, Cheers magazine. Like this one, about the rise in bars and restaurants...

Pisco Portón La Caravedo Torontel

Pisco Portón has announces its newest expression: La Caravedo Torontel. La Caravedo Torontel is a pisco puro, meaning it is made from a single varietal of the eight grape varietals allowed by Peruvian law to...

Moobuzz GSM, Leese-Fitch Firehouse Red Wine

3 Badge Beverage Corporation has added new wines to two of its brand lines. The Moobuzz GSM (Grenache Syrah Mourvèdre) hails from California’s Central Coast. With grapes sourced from the hills of Paso Robles and the peaks...

Snoop Dogg and Tanqueray Team Up For New Campaign

Tanqueray Gin announced this week the launch of a new strategic partnership with entertainment icon Snoop Dogg. The partnership focuses on a Gin & Juice cocktail strategy "celebrating the success of Snoop Dogg's 1993 classic...