Where Cordials and Liqueurs Show Growth in 2017
The cordials category has tremendous diversity and tends to be a catch-all for anything that isn’t a standard base spirit,” says Cherie Koster, senior brand manager for St-Germain liqueur.
Indeed, the fluid, anomalous and wide-ranging...
Colorado Alcohol Retailers Face Changing Laws and Trends
It’s no secret that Coloradans love to imbibe. More than 10 percent of the nation’s craft breweries are found there, as are well over 100 wineries and about 50 distilleries. And while the state’s...
How Rum Can Reboot as a Super Premium Category
When will it be rum’s turn?
To climb the price and reputation ladder that is.
It’s not like there aren’t a slew of super-premium, high-quality rums in the market - just this June at the Beverage...
Why Age Whiskey at Sea?
Anchored miles off the shoreline of Montauk, NY, is the shark tracking vessel Ocearch. The 126-foot ship rises and dips with the waves, motion that sloshes around bourbon aging in barrels in the belly...
4 Quick Facts About Craft Tequila
Sales remain sunny for tequila. The category grew 5% last year in the U.S., with the big premium brands leading the charge. Luxury brands are also booming.
U.S. consumers are thirsty for craft tequila, and...
What’s Behind the Rise of Heavy Beers
Back in the days when mainstream lager owned the beer market, a persistent urban myth held that Canadian beer—if you could get it—wasn’t like ours. It was really strong. Turns out it wasn’t: their...
Grading the Finest Sparkling Wines of 2017
For our latest round of reviews, we asked our national wine panel to rate sparkling wines. Below are 52 bottles, from current or past vintages, that they deemed worthy enough to sip and review...
10 Alcohol Trends to Watch in 2017-18
Consumer taste continues to evolve. Recent industry-defining beverage alcohol categories like bourbon, IPA and rosé have begun to splinter off into subcategories. Different takes on these styles have emerged, including regional focuses or reimagined...
What’s The Difference Between Trappist and Abbey Ales?
Some breweries produce “abbey ales" while others make “trappist ales.” Is there a difference? Both imply beer made by monks in cloistered breweries — right? So are these terms synonymous?
Not at all. So explains...
Are Single-Vineyard and Estate-Grown Wines Better?
What’s in a wine label?
Loads of information. There’s a brand name or producer, of course, and a geographic description of origin. A year, if the wine is vintage-dated, and perhaps the name of a...