Pennsylvania Liquor Board reports record $128m in profits
August 6, 2013 The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board said Monday it enjoyed record profits in the last fiscal year, a time when special interests were spending millions to advance or derail efforts to privatize liquor and wines sales after 80 years of state control....
Champagne yields set for 2013 harvest
August 5, 2013 The yield for the 2013 Champagne harvest has been set at 10,000 kilograms per hectare, with an additional 500kg/ha allowed to be released from producers' reserve stocks next February, the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) has...
US facing grape shortage – soon there won’t be enough grapes to make all of the wine the country wants to drink
August 5, 2013 There's a grape shortage developing in the U.S., warns Citi's Gino Rossi and Craig Woolford. And the roots of this problem originate twenty years ago. "An excess of US vineyard plantings in the 1990s resulted in surplus wine grape supply through the...
Diageo’s strategy to reclaim leadership position in Tequila includes buying a couple of Tequilas
August 1, 2013 Diageo Plc may be close to a deal that would help it reclaim its dominant position in the global tequila market, according to a senior executive. The world's biggest spirits group lost its right to distribute Jose Cuervo tequila outside Mexico last...
California wine grape harvest coming early this year
July 29, 2013 There’s no such thing as “normal” weather in California wine country, and vineyard operators say this year that truism could mean good news for wine lovers. After cool temperatures slowed ripening and kept grapes on the vine until fall in recent years,...
Pennsylvania legislators back shipping wine to consumers
July 25, 2013 Will Pennsylvanians soon be able to have a cabernet sauvignon or a Riesling from California shipped straight to their door? Despite the bruising battle in the Legislature over privatization of state wine and spirit stores, allowing direct shipment of...
Voli Vodka announces new executive management team and selection of Park Street as importer and back-office service provider
July 24, 2013 Voli Vodka, maker of the world’s first line of low calorie fruit and fusion flavored vodkas, is pleased to announce a new executive management team and updated go to market strategy. Voli is proud to announce the appointment of Mr. Jorge Gutierrez as...
June 2013 Control State results: sales down 6.4%
July 24, 2013 During June, nine-liter spirits case sales in the control states were down 6.4% compared to same period last year. Rolling-twelve month reported volumes grew at 1.6%, down from May’s 2.5%. No control jurisdiction reported a monthly growth rate that...
Imports of French wine go sour in China
China's imports of French wines have fallen amid fears that a trade spat between the European Union and China - the world's fifth-largest wine market - might lead to higher import tariffs on European wine. During the first five months, wine imports rose 10.6 percent...