The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) has released its annual report, Mission in Review 2012, highlighting gross sales of $734 million, up $41 million from the previous year, and profit transfers of more than $132 million. Fiscal year 2012 marks...

(Reuters) - Almost a thousand years since the Norman conquest made cider popular in Britain, brewers are launching cider invasions of their own, with the United States the main battlefield. Cider, or hard cider as Americans call it, promises growth in...

Restaurant Sciences, a leading provider of restaurant industry information and analytics based on individual guest checks, today released the nation’s first-ever study of wine-by-the-glass consumption in US restaurants, nightclubs and hotel bars. The data also shows...

PROFITS at Whyte & Mackay, the Glasgow-based whisky distiller caught in the middle of Diageo’s takeover of United Spirits, have leapt by a quarter as the firm shifts away from making supermarket blends to focus on its higher margin single malts.   The rise in...

SAN FRANCISCO — Napa Valley, one of the world's premier wine growing regions, has an uncommon problem these days: not enough new grapevine root stock is available to supply the massive replanting that's under way there. A trifecta of developments has created the...

When Prohibition ended 79 years ago, California replaced the bootleg liquor trade with a legal monopoly – a series of laws that locked in industry marketing practices and enforced industry-established retail prices. The misnamed "fair trade" laws were the handiwork of...

At a meeting in Cognac this week, we have received confirmation that some cognac distillers are being offered prices for cognac 22% above this year’s price. So far we understand that only Hennessy have made any offers, but it is certain that the other big...

Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its annual report on traffic fatalities in the U.S., and the results for 2011 were encouraging. Not only did the total number of deaths on U.S. roads decline (from 32,885 in 2010 to 32,367 in...

Mexico City –  The Mexican government announced Thursday a set of new regulations designed to protect makers of tequila - a key export - from unfair competition. Norm 006 establishes procedures for obtaining official certification as a tequila distiller or bottler....