Ingredient launches, acquisition heat up supplier market
Ingredient manufacturers announce their latest offerings and acquisitions.
December 2024
Constellation Brands agrees to divest SVEDKA
Constellation Brands, Rochester, N.Y., announced that it has reached an agreement with Sazerac Co. Inc., New Orleans, to divest its SVEDKA brand. This transaction is expected to close in the coming months.
The 7 Best Champagnes to Gift This Holiday (2024)
When in doubt, Champagne is a fool-proof holiday gift for friends and family. The season provides a plethora of festive moments to pop a bottle of bubbly, so the more the merrier when it comes to sparkling wine. But when you come face to face with the wine shop shelves, it’s helpful to have a …
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Like Christmas Decorations, Holiday Pop-Up Bars Arrived Earlier Than Ever This Year
Christmas is over a month away, and I’m sitting in a bar that feels like being locked inside Santa Claus’s workshop with alcohol, surrounded by shimmering red and silver tinsel, writing a Christmas card to Mariah Carey. A woman wearing a knit holiday sweater with blinking lights and a headband with reindeer antlers shimmies past …
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The VinePair Podcast: The Stories Behind Our Top 50 Spirits of 2024
‘Tis the season, indeed. Last week, VinePair’s annual list of the Top 50 Spirits went live — and it’s chock-full of truly stellar bottlings. Every year, VinePair tastes through thousands of spirits for our Buy This Booze column, with our favorites — along with a few that don’t fit into traditional categories — selected for …
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We Asked 20 Brewers: What’s the Best New Beer of 2024?
December brings about reflection and deep consideration about what the past year was all about. Am I a better person now than I was in January? Where have I grown and where do I still need to go? Did I accomplish my resolutions and which ones should I set for next year? What was the …
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape: Revisiting 2020 in bottle
25 of the best Châteauneuf wines from the 2020 vintage that you should snap up now. I remember tasting the 2020 Châteauneufs after they’d spent a year in barrel. It wasn’t the joyful experience it perhaps should have been, as winemakers often appeared subdued. It wasn’t due to the quality of the wines, but rather …
Macallan fails to sell in Hong Kong auction
Auction highlights. Two of the headline lots featuring The Macallan whisky failed to sell in Bonhams’ online auction in Hong Kong, with Japanese whiskies instead tempting buyers. Neither The Red Collection nor The Reach found new homes during the sale, which began on 15 November and ended on St Andrew’s Day, the national holiday commemorating …
Afternoon Brief, December 9
What Do Neo-Prohibitionists Really Want?: Organizations that advocate for more stringent policies around the sale and marketing of alcohol are gaining momentum. What does this mean for the beverage industry?…