Sales & Marketing

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...

Cordials & Liqueurs Go with the Flow

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...

Five American Whiskey Trends On-Premise

Editor’s Note: to keep retailers updated about bars and restaurants, where alcohol trends typically begin, we occasionally cross-post from our on-premise magazine Cheers. There’s no question that American whiskey is a big trend right now. “It...

Last Year’s Fastest Growing Beer Brands

It’s no secret that the overall beer industry has been lagging, as the macro brands continue to lose ground and the craft sector feels the pain of oversaturation and increasing competition. New brands, styles...

Craft Beer Showed Signs of Slowdown in 2016

Is craft beer slowing down? Technically the category remained in growth mode in 2016, expanding 6% to 295.723 million 2.25-gallon cases, according to the forthcoming 2017 Beer Handbook from the Beverage Information Group. That makes craft...

American Whiskey Faces Supply and Demand Issues

“The whiskey category is growing and growing; we’re loving it,” says Elizabeth Gregg, general manager of Applejack Wine & Spirits. For the Denver area retailer, American whiskey is the fastest growing section of the...

American Vodka Continues to Grow

When the vodka boom exploded at the turn of the century, the race to create the most elegant and refined brand image and package, using elaborate distillation and filtration processes as well as a...

American Wines Forecast Continued Growth

The coming year’s forecast looks rosy for American wine retailers and American vintners alike. Stability in the U.S. economy and favorable demographic trends are currently pointing toward continued growth in wine sales in 2017, so...

No End In Sight for American Whiskey Growth

“Anyone who says he can predict what’s going to happen in the whiskey industry 20 years from now is crazy,” says Wesley Henderson, co-founder/chief innovation officer of Angel’s Envy. Being able to guess how...

What’s the Future of Barrel Aging?

Wood aging has reached new levels. Whiskey now matures in ex-beer barrels, beer in former mezcal casks, bourbon barrels are holding cab sauv, and everything in between. Has it gone too far? Do some barrel-aged...