Is Tito 's Handmade Vodka really handmade? Would it taste any less good if it weren't anymore?   Type "handmade vodka" into Google and the first two pages of results are about one brand: Tito's Handmade Vodka from Austin, Texas. You could say the "handmade"...

Anheuser Busch Inbev SA (ADR) (BUD) received a lot of media coverage recently due to the ongoing speculation in the market that the global beverage and brewing company is planning to take over beer rival SABMiller plc ADR (SBMRY). This instigated a lot of debt buzz...

British Columbians should be able to buy a bottle of wine along with their groceries from Spring 2015.   The B.C. government announced further details for selling alcohol in the province's grocery stores Friday, with the expectation that the new program will be...

Craft Distillers should consider bulk buying neutral spirit in order to make themselves "scalable" in the face of increased demand.   Speaking at London's Craft Distillers Expo yesterday, spirits expert and author Ian Smiley said that while it is beneficial for...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to second-guess reductions to a more than $800,000 award of attorneys' fees and expenses for consumers and a winery that successfully challenged New Jersey's allegedly unfair barriers against out-of-state wineries.   The...

On September 30, 2014, the California Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 520, which revises the state's laws on consumer instructional tastings at on-premises licensed retailers (i.e., bars and restaurants). Prior to the revision, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §...

Trends across duty-free spirits markets reversed in 2013 as Asia Pacific reported the sector's first volume declines in five years.   According to new figures complied by the International Wines and Spirits Research (IWSR), the once-leading Asia Pacific duty free...

There are bacteria in wine that may be beneficial for people's health, new research finds.   In the study, researchers in Spain isolated 11 strains of bacteria from wine, including strains of Lactobacillus, which are also found in yogurt, as well as Oenococcus...

Part of the ritual of wine drinking is opening the bottle, teasing the cork from the bottle and pouring that wine into a crystal glass. That's no longer the default, though. First, they came out with fake corks, then screw cap bottles - and, sacre bleu, now some...