Washington liquor lovers rejoice: Beginning this weekend, you can now have that bottle of Jack or some high-quality Patron delivered right to your door. It’s now legal for liquor retailers to deliver spirits in the state of Washington, granted that the customer is...

BOSTON (CBS) – Wine aficionados in Massachusetts will not be able to shop online any time soon for their favorite vintage. The State House News Service reports that a proposal on Beacon Hill allowing wine deliveries from out of state was gutted and replaced with new...

Beltsville, Md. • Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government’s heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an Industrial Revolution...

Suntory Holdings Ltd., the closely held Japanese whiskey and beer maker, is exploring the possibility of making an offer for the U.S. distiller Beam Inc. (BEAM), according to an official of the Osaka-based company. Suntory has held talks with Diageo Plc (DGE) about a...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) today applauded passage of historic legislation that will extend permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Russia, saying the bill will boost already-growing American spirits exports to the...

Beam Inc. has acquired Irish whiskey newcomer 2 Gingers for an undisclosed sum.Launched in January 2012 by Minnesota-based entrepreneur Kieran Folliard, 2 Gingers is a twice-distilled offering produced by Beam’s Kilbeggan Distilling Co. in County Westmeath, Ireland....

On the heels of last year's session in which policymakers rightly modernized key alcohol laws to increase consumer convenience, now the Competitive Alcoholic Liquor Pricing Task Force is eyeing the state's artificially high alcohol prices. While we can all raise a...

Reuters) - Spirits group Diageo Plc (DGE.L) said it would consider buying out the 50 percent of premium vodka brand Ketel One it does not already own if it came on the market. The owner of Smirnoff vodka paid $900 million in 2008 to acquire half of Ketel One and form...

An illegal distilling and bottling plant set up to produce branded counterfeit spirits and wine has been seized by Trading Standards officers and Merseyside Police in Liverpool.   The business was set up to produce schnapps, brandy, whisky, vodka and wine and had...