After a 0.9% decline in 2024, spirits volumes declined a further 2.7% in control states during the first quarter of this year, according to NABCA. The largest control state, Pennsylvania, bucked the ...

With tariffs dominating the news headlines, auction houses have been busy assessing what the implications will be. Continue reading → ...

While the U.S. wine market suffered a decline last year and now faces further uncertainty from tariffs, the “better-for-you” sector continues to buck the trend, according to Impact Databank. Continue ...

•Suntory Global Spirits’ On the Rocks has announced the Harmony Collection, a new duo of ready-to-serve cocktails designed by Hidetsugu Ueno, operator of Tokyo’s Bar High Five. Continue reading → ...

• The Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (FJMC), which includes more than 25,000 members throughout North America, has joined with synagogues in Israel and around the globe in calling for a boycott of ...

On April 9, a group of Napa Valley College (NVC) donors known as the President’s Circle Giving Society took part in a hard-hat tour of the Wine Spectator Wine Education Center. Continue reading → ...

•Lucas Bols is introducing Bols Blue 1575, a super-premium Blue Curaçao. Continue reading → ...

•Minneapolis, Minnesota’s O’Shaughnessy Distilling Co. has launched its second whiskey—Keeper’s Heart Bourbon + Irish—in limited retail and on ReserveBar. Continue reading → ...

•Schlafly Beer and WellBeing Brewing Co. have announced a new joint venture that will bring WellBeing’s stable of non-alcoholic brews into the Schlafly fold. Continue reading → ...

Tuscan wine dynasty Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi has bought a minority stake in the pioneering Mount Etna estate Tenute delle Terre Nere in Sicily. Continue reading → ...