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Announcing Our Inaugural Alcohol Industry 40 Under 40

Beverage Dynamics magazine and our parent company Beverage Information Group have recognized the best young leaders in the alcohol industry with its inaugural 40 Under 40 program. Our list represents a diverse group of amazing leaders and...

Optimist Botanicals Cali Spritz Cocktail RTD

Optimist Drinks, a Los Angeles-based non-alcoholic beverage company, has launched the first of its first ready-to-drink offering: the Cali Spritz. After over two years of research and development, the result is a collection of...
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Brandy and Cognac: Welcoming a New Generation

Brandy and Cognac, which had boomed during the pandemic, appears to have hit a speed bump, as consumers facing inflationary pressures pull back on spending on luxury items. Volume consumption for the Brandy and Cognac...
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Consumer Demand Drives Alcohol Shipping Growth

Note from the Publisher: In the NovDec 2022 issue of Beverage Dynamics, we ran the first in a series of articles about direct-to-consumer alcohol shipping titled “Consumer Convenience, but at What Cost?” It included...
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Our Favorite Wines We Drank in 2023

To close out 2023, we asked the Beverage Dynamics national wine panel to taste and rate their favorite wines from this past year. As always, these selections include brief tasting notes, a rating and the...

Waterford Whisky Introduces Three New Cuvée Releases

Waterford Whisky just introduced a new core range of Cuvée Concepts to the U.S. These releases mark an evolution in Waterford Whisky's mission to create "flavorsome" single malt whiskies, the company states. “The natural progression of...
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Podcast: Empowering Women Leaders in the Alcohol Industry

In this episode, we speak with Hillary Wirtz, Breakthru Beverage’s Director of D&I, as well as the Chair of WSWA’s Women’s Leadership Council (WLC). Wirtz talks about the importance of improving diversity in the...

Aguasol Additive-Free Tequila

Fully mature agave, natural spring water, and the Jalisco, Mexico sunshine are the only three things inside Aguasol’s newly launched tequila. Designed for music festivals and sporting events, Aguasol is made by a fourth-generation...
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Celebrating Female Leaders in the Beverage Alcohol Industry

Women have played key roles in the beverage alcohol business from the beginning, though they haven’t always received the credit they deserved. That’s been changing in the past decade or two, however. While there...
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How Sparkling Wine Works

All wines are bubbly at some point because carbon dioxide is a byproduct of fermenting sugar into alcohol. However, this natural carbonation is usually allowed to dissipate, leaving a still wine behind. Why? It is...