Reviews: Our Favorite Sparkling Wines of 2020
For this latest round of Beverage Dynamics wine reviews, we tasked our panel of independent wine professionals to rate sparkling wines.
As always, these selections include brief tasting notes, a grade and the wine’s retail price (which...
Mixed Bubbles — Sparkling Wine Trends in 2020
Sparkling wine sales are up overall, but preferences vary by style.
Consumers still love the bubbly. Champagne and sparkling wine volume consumption rose about 4% in 2019, according to the Beverage Information and Insights Group,...
What’s Hot in Tequila and Mezcal in 2020
Tequila and mezcal remain red hot. Both spirits tap into numerous trends that should keep the categories very much on the minds of consumers in 2020.
Recent growth has been impressive. In 2018, tequila sales...
U.S. Beer Volume Continues Decline, According to 2019 Beer Handbook
Overall beer consumption continued to slide, with total volume decreasing 1.3% to 2.77 billion 2.25-gallon cases in 2018, according to the Beverage Information Group’s 2019 Beer Handbook.
This marks the sixth consecutive year of declines in...
Organic Vs. BioDynamic Wine: What’s The Difference?
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, all farming was organic by today’s standards. Nowadays, the norm in commercial agriculture is to boost crop productivity with chemicals, hormones and genetically modified organisms.
In conventional grape growing for...
The 2019 Beer Growth Brands: What’s Driving the Category
We calculated our annual Beer Growth Brands Awards a bit differently in 2019.
This year we polled beverage alcohol retailers and other industry professionals about what brands and companies sold the best in 2018, while...
7 Emerging Mezcals and Tequilas
The increasing popularity of craft tequila has helped fuel the mezcal movement. Below we look at seven mezcal/tequila brands on the rise.
1) Mezcal El Silencio
Launched in 2014, this brand has grown thanks to a...
4 Beverage Alcohol Retailers Who Are Top in America
This summer, we counted down the top five retailers on our Top 100 list, culminating in the Retailer of the Year award for Twin Liquors. Below, you can read about the other four retailers...
Forecasting Napa and Sonoma’s 2019 Vintages
Recently there has been an amazing bull-market run for wines
from Napa and Sonoma valleys. Can that continue with the 2019 vintage?
I have just returned from winery visits to California’s north coast, and there is...
Why Succession Planning is Important
In my family, only my great-grandfather had the experience of starting a store from the ground up.
While none of the first two generations are alive to talk about it with me, I believe my...
