Liquor Industry News/Links
12-27-14
By: Mark C Lenzi CSW, CSS, CWAS, QCE*
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Liquor Industry Week In Review
This Weeks Highlights:
New Products
Trader Joes Wine
New Years Tips
AND MORE!
Beers Americans no longer drink
American beer sales have been trending downwards in recent years
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/21/beers-americans-no-longer-drink/20423613/
Why you should SHAKE your bottle of bubbly to stop it overflowing: Actually decreases the pressure, say French boffins
Shaking bottles of champagne has become widely associated with flying corks and the kind of messy spraying of liquid normally restricted to the winners podium in Formula One.
The Real Reasons Trader Joe’s Wine Is So Cheap
So how does the company keep its prices so low, while still delivering a taste that people love? And is there really animal matter in the wine?
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-trader-joes-wine-is-so-cheap-2014-12
AMERICA’S 14 FAVORITE CHRISTMAS COOKIES PAIRED WITH WINE
Screws put to wine corks
Industry tries to win back favor of winemakers
The world’s wine cork producers want you to know they’re sorry.
http://www.journalgazette.net/business/Screws-put-to-wine-corks-4017003
For a Surprisingly Large Variety of European Wine, Visit Sweden’s Systembolaget
Of all the countries in Europe, you’d never guess this country — up in the far north, with few vineyards of its own, and whose internationally best-known drinks are aquavit and vodka — would be a nation of wine enthusiasts.
http://blog.iwawine.com/2014/12/european-wine-at-systembolaget/
Champagne Pizza
It tasted like Champagne in the pizza dough! It was amazing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/champagne-pizza_n_6350792.html
13 Favorite Christmas Movies (With Beverage Pairings For Your Viewing Pleasure)
Here’s a dozen of our favorite holiday movie classics, shaken and stirred, and served up with twist. The beverage selections are on the house.
http://wineharlots.com/2013/12/wine-harlots-12-favorite-christmas-movies/
VINTAGE AD ARCHIVE: WHISKEY FOR CHRISTMAS!
A look at the myriad ways this most warming of liquors has been incorporated into spirits company Christmas campaigns.
http://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog/2014/12/22/vintage-ad-archive-whiskey-for-christmas/
U.S. wine industry toasts decline in Japan’s sake sales
Sake sales have steadily tanked in Japan, another victim of globalization.
THE BEST COCKTAILS FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE
New Year’s Eve can leave even the most confident of party hosts quaking in their boots, so we’ve asked some of the industry’s best bartenders to share their favourite New Year’s Eve cocktails.
Chianti Wine: The Pride of Tuscany
Why is Chianti more written about, drank, and talked about that any other Italian wine in history? What makes Chianti so the perfect food wine?
16 majestic winter photos from Napa Valley
Here is some inspiration.
THE BEST WINE TO DRINK WITH CHINESE FOOD
Here’s the wine you should drink with some of the most popular Chinese American dishes:
http://vinepair.com/wine-blog/best-wine-drink-chinese-food/
New Rum
Terlato Wines is launching the Don Pancho Origenes line of super-premium aged rums to select U.S. markets. Produced in Panama by legendary Cuban rum master blender Francisco “Don Pancho” Fernandez, the range includes 8-year-old ($40), 18-year-old ($ 90) and 30-year-old offerings ($425). Crafted in a classic Cuban style at the Las Cabras Distillery in the Herrera region of Panama with molasses from hand-harvested sugar cane and proprietary yeast, the rums are aged in American oak Bourbon barrels, the company says. Don Pancho Origenes is imported by Terlato’s Artisan Spirits division.
HOPHEAD VODKA
The latest creation from Anchor Distilling Company, is distilled entirely from two types of hops from Washington’s Yakima Valley, the same hops used in the creation of some of Anchor’s legendary beers. HOPHEAD vodka captures the fresh, aromatic character of hops without the typical bitterness.
http://www.anchordistilling.com/spirits/hophead-vodka
Champagne’s big gaffe (and 5 ways to mend it)
Champagne’s influential trade body, the CIVC
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/12/23/champagnes-big-gaffe-and-5-ways-to-mend-it/
Film explores growth of Ky. grape/wine industry
Kentucky wineries are the subject of a new documentary that will debut on public television later this month.
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/12/23/3608130_film-explores-growth-of-ky-grapewine.html?rh=1
You Don’t Know Fizz About Champagne, The Royal Drink
Make sure to always use a cap C for Champagne, as it is the proper name of a region in France, and no other place on earth can claim or use that name.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sidonie-sawyer/you-dont-know-fizz-about-_b_6363778.html
What’s the Big Deal About Orange Wine?
Orange wines are white wines made like red wines.
http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2014/12/what-s-the-big-deal-about-orange-wine
The Dr. Loosen Estate
The iconoclastic German wine producer is exactly what the doctor ordered to put a wine region—or in Loosen’s case, to re-establish a grape—on the world wine stage and make everyone believers.
http://montecristomagazine.com/magazine/winter-2011/the-dr-loosen-estate
Cocktail Party Essentials: How to Curate the Perfect Bar
The bar makes the party, and these items make the bar
http://www.lamag.com/liquidlablog/cocktail-party-essentials-curate-perfect-bar/
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