Category: News

Canned Cocktails Are Starting to Eat the Spirits Business

RTD / AnalysisSeptember 25, 2026 Canned Cocktails Are Starting to Eat the Spirits Business The ready-to-drink category is posting double and triple-digit gains while overall alcohol consumption falls. That is...

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12×75 Spirits Market Report | Week Ending 27 September 2026

12×75 Spirits Market Report Weekly intelligence 27 September 2026 US retail spirits • Week ending 27 September Tequila discounts lead a quiet week for spirits prices Cazadores leads the fallers,...

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Sazerac Isn’t Finished Shopping Yet

Spirits / M&ASeptember 25, 2026 Sazerac Isn’t Finished Shopping Yet Eleven days after completing its Au Vodka deal, Sazerac signed a binding agreement to buy Berentzen, one of Germany’s oldest...

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Japanese Whisky Is Winning the Airport

Whisky / DataSeptember 25, 2026 Japanese Whisky Is Winning the Airport New IWSR travel-retail data shows Japanese whisky value up 44% in 2025 and volumes up 37%, while Cognac suffered...

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BrewDog’s New Owner Is Spending £50m Trying to Save It

Beer / Business30 September 2026 BrewDog’s New Owner Is Spending £50m Trying to Save It Tilray paid £33 million for what was left of BrewDog in March. It says it...

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Cazcanes Just Put 100-Proof Tequila Into Apricot Brandy Barrels

Tequila / New ReleaseSeptember 30, 2026 Cazcanes Just Put 100-Proof Tequila Into Apricot Brandy Barrels Two new single-barrel reposados, one finished in a cask that held Mirabelle eau-de-vie, the other...

Categories Tequila/News

Bourbon Fans Can Now Own the Whole Barrel

Bourbon / IndustrySeptember 25, 2026 Bourbon Fans Can Now Own the Whole Barrel A new Kentucky platform called BarrelPick lets you buy an entire barrel, leave it ageing in a...

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Heidi Klum Has Put Wine in Blood Bags

Wine / MarketingSeptember 25, 2026 Heidi Klum Has Put Wine in Blood Bags Apothic and the queen of Halloween have made a limited-edition transfusion bag you fill with red wine...

Categories Wine Blog/News

Christina Aguilera Bought Into Champagne, and the Pitch Is Sugar

Champagne / CelebritySeptember 25, 2026 Christina Aguilera Bought Into Champagne, and the Pitch Is Sugar Aguilera has taken an undisclosed equity stake in Beau Joie and become its global creative...

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Tequila’s US Lifeline: Mexico Pushes Congress to Keep It Tariff-Free

Tequila / TradeSeptember 25, 2026 Tequila’s US Lifeline: Mexico Pushes Congress to Keep It Tariff-Free Three members of the Congressional Tequila Caucus spent Wednesday in Jalisco, touring the regulator’s laboratories...

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California Is Ripping Out Vineyards as Wine Demand Collapses

Wine / AnalysisSeptember 25, 2026 California Is Ripping Out Vineyards as Wine Demand Collapses US wine sales have fallen 23% in five years. Spending is down 22%. Roughly a quarter...

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Moët Is Using Formula 1 to Find Champagne’s Next Drinkers

Champagne / MarketingSeptember 25, 2026 Moët Is Using Formula 1 to Find Champagne’s Next Drinkers Moët & Chandon will be title sponsor of the 2027 Australian Grand Prix, putting its...

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