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How Top Restaurants Have Changed Consumers’ Tastes For Riesling

Bone dry and mineral-tinged or unctuous and dessert-like, it’s never been a sweeter time for riesling. The highly aromatic, über acidic white varietal is classic, consistent and arguably a little confusing. Riesling can be super...
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MillerCoors Launches New Hard Iced Tea Line

As consumer palates branch out beyond craft beer and into hard sodas and malt beverages, MillerCoors has launched a new hard iced teas line. Easy Tea Co. will produce a lightly-carbonated hard iced tea with a crisp citrus...

Palm Bay Partners With Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards On New York Wine

Palm Bay International and the family-owned Finger Lakes, New York winery Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards have announce a new national partnership agreement. Effective August 1, Hazlitt and the company’s Red Cat brand will join Palm Bay’s portfolio. This marks the...

Clyde May’s Straight Bourbon

Conecuh Ridge Distillers has introduced Clyde May's Straight Bourbon. This five-year-old whiskey is non-chill filtered and 92 proof. The nose is soft and sweet, the company reports, with aromas of brown sugar, baked apricot, wild strawberry and nutmeg. The...

Frontera After Dark

Frontera, producer of Chilean value wines, has announced Frontera After Dark. The line launches this fall with two blends: Moonlight White and After Midnight Red. Moonlight White is a semi-sweet style, faintly effervescent, fresh, light Moscato-based blend, the company...

Novo Fogo Graciosa Cachaça

Novo Fogo has announced its newest expression: Graciosa Cachaça. Novo Fogo is an organic, Brazilian cachaça handcrafted in small batches at a zero-waste distillery, just meters from the edge of the Atlantic Rainforest in the southern state of...

Aberfeldy 16, Craigellachie 17 Scotches

John Dewar & Sons has expanded its scotch portfolio with two new expressions: Aberfeldy 16 and Craigellachie 17. Aberfeldy 16 presents a new version of this highland-style malt, the company reports, offering a taste more mature...

Diageo Renames U.S. Beer Division Amidst Renewed Category Focus

Diageo announced today that it is changing the name of its U.S. beer division from Diageo-Guinness USA to Diageo Beer Company USA. Following several months of strategy work to help better position Diageo’s U.S. beer business for...

Jack Daniel’s Announces New Single Barrel Personal Selection Program

Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Collection debuted its new Personal Collection program this summer. An evolution of the By the Barrel program, consumers are now able to purchase their own customized selection of whiskey via a...
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Drizly Receives $15M Investment

Leading digital alcohol delivery service Drizly has announced a new $15 million investment from its Series B financing. This funding brings total investment in Drizly to $32.8 million, the company said in a press release, and will...