Booze and government taxes seem inexorably joined at the hip. Indeed, it is hard to find a government that didn’t see its domestic spirits industry as a lucrative source of cash.
When she took over as president of Domaine Carneros in 1987, Eileen Crane was one of the few women to lead a North Coast winery.
Draft beer now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all on-premise beer volume, according to the Beer Institute’s (BI) annual State-Level Packaging Report, released today.
When big companies invade boutique wine country with much bigger marketing budgets and resources, the little guy can feel squeezed out. Or, creative marketing and a changed paradigm could lead to more success.
Arkansas billionaire Gaylon Lawrence Jr. has purchased Heitz Wine Cellars in St. Helena, a storied Napa Valley brand that has been popular among collectors and wine enthusiasts.
GENEVA — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, is urging the Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service to provide a robust investment in new equipment for the Grape Genetics Research Unit in Geneva.
Wealthy middle-aged women — the biggest wine-drinking demographic in the US — say their cannabis use would increase if the federal gov US consumers could turn away from wine in favour of legalised marijuana, according to beverages analyst Bourcard Nesin at food and agribusiness financial services provider Rabobank.
A ban on alcohol advertising could cost SA’s broadcast media industry R2.38bn a year, beverages group Heineken said.
Do you remember what the trendy beverage was before bourbon took off? Whipped cream-flavored vodka. It was huge — and liquor companies wanted a part of it, according to Allan Latts, chief operating officer of Bardstown-based distiller Heaven Hill Brands.
Spirits could once again be in the firing line of a diplomatic row as Russia considers trade sanctions against the US and its allies.