Cheers

JUNE 26, 2024

Here are eight cocktails we like for this year, and here’s a look back at the 2023 July 4th drinks. Print Sunset Paradise Course Drinks Keyword butterfly pea flower tea, cranberry, lime, orange juice, peach brandy, tequila, Triple sec, vodka Ingredients ½ oz. Mix the vodka floater with the butterfly pea tea.

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VinePair

APRIL 1, 2024

For the dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of bottles stocked in your local liquor store or loaded on the virtual shelves of online retailers, a medal can be a make-or-break moment. The brand received a Best Whiskey medal in 2023 for its 2013 Bourbon and a 2022 Gold medal for its limited-edition 50-year Armagnac.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“The tequila market is stronger than ever,” says Mike Moreno, owner of Moreno’s Liquors in Chicago, a Beverage Dynamics Top 100 Retailer, and the largest vendor of agave spirits in America. In 2023, tequila was supposed to outpace vodka by the end of the year. Instead, it ended up outperforming vodka by the end of Q2.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 28, 2024

To talk about every winner in the competition in 2023 would make for a very long article. So, today, let’s work our way through the top ten scorers in the American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition 2023. Having grown up around spirits, she carries on her family’s legacy with the distillation of high-quality bourbons, gins, and vodka.

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VinePair

MAY 9, 2024

Their spirits have enriched and diversified cocktail bars and liquor stores, and the industry as a whole has reset consumer expectations for flavor and authenticity. The question they’re tackling, Holman says, is, “How can we work to modernize local liquor laws so that these small craft distilleries can thrive and survive?”

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VinePair

AUGUST 9, 2024

While the lineup — which sold to Beam Suntory in 2011 — has since expanded to include several other cocktails, wines, vodka, and even salad dressings, we stuck to the OG Marg. Promoting the line on the show delivered similar buzz: By 2023, the brand had generated approximately $38 million in sales across the U.S. tequila boom.

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VinePair

AUGUST 29, 2024

Almost 20 years into the bourbon boom , liquor store shelves — both physical and virtual — are more packed than ever with producers and labels fighting for eyeballs. Light whiskey was conceived in the 1960s as American distilling’s answer to imported clear spirits like vodka and blended whiskeys.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The type of fruit and category of booze can be arbitrary, but for the sake of argument, let’s say the fruit is pippin apples and the booze is vodka. You fill the container with the apple slices and the vodka, seal the lid, and wait a day or two for the fruity essence to penetrate the spirit’s soul as it absorbs some of the alcohol.

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Dry Atlas

JUNE 19, 2024

I don’t think I quite appreciated the complexity that even a vodka brings to a drink now. With Duchess, we use a commercial-grade vodka—but we use a top-tier one. When we made our non-alc Cosmo, for example, we took out the vodka. It has a lot of body. It has a lot of body. It adds a lot to the flavor.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You can even pair it with a nice bottle of liquor (like this bourbon gift set from Angel’s Envy ) or our 4-piece set (or both!) And like the drink tray, pair them with a bottle of liquor or small cocktail kit, and you have a complete gift for your favorite cocktail lover! for a complete gift. Maybe YOU are that friend.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The key cocktails and long drinks (typically a soda mixed with liquor) subcategory, according to the IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, along with products that sit within the premium and above price bracket. They realize that if the drink has a liquor in it, it will automatically have higher proof, so they prefer to drink a spirit.”

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Cheers

JANUARY 23, 2024

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ’ annual Culinary + Cocktail Trend Forecast cites the rise of Latin American spirits and liquors such as aguariente, singani and cocuy, served within craft cocktails or enjoyed on the rocks. “I For example, Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo is offering a Martini that features vodka infused with Japanese salmon jerky.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Detroit News covered the annual Eastern Market paczki beer release, happening alongside a paczki vodka as well. Yuengling had a pretty good 2023 sales year thanks (in part) to their expansion into Missouri. Fox 6 went inside the Explorium Brewpub , which apparently has a liquor library.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We tasted each one non-blind because we recognize that price plays one of the most important roles when you’re shopping at the liquor store or online, and should therefore be considered when evaluating a product. Is rum stronger than vodka? The palate is similarly singular, with an enjoyable peppery-spiced finish.

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VinePair

APRIL 22, 2024

When asked to think about the world’s most popular spirit, American minds will likely drift to liquors like vodka or whiskey , maybe even rum if they’re being ambitious. In 2023, Impact Databank estimates that mezcal exports to the U.S. The weird chocolate liquor hanging out in the corner?

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VinePair

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Irish coffee has been around since the 1940s, Red Bull-vodka since the late ‘80s; Sparks, a Four Loko-forerunning FMB-plus-caffeine brand, since 2003. A few of them will probably mix it with White Claw, or vodka, or grain liquor. and downs Also according to the BA’s 2023 report, the U.S. percent (but hey, at 5.2

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VinePair

MARCH 27, 2025

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States defines super-premium vodkas as those that retail between $30 and $45, but pricing is just a fraction of what gives a certain vodka the look, feel, and overall impression of luxury. Here are eight things you should know about Chopin vodka.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In early 2023, videos of college students wielding plastic jugs filled with vodka , water, and liquid flavoring began surfacing on various social media platforms. A Sidewalk Slammer is an equal parts blend of malt liquor and caffeinated malt beverage (like Sparks or Four Loko pre-formula change). What Is a Sidewalk Slammer?

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VinePair

MAY 15, 2025

In January 2023, RNDCs long-term partner Sazerac announced that it would be pivoting distribution away from RNDC and towards the Chicago-based group, kickstarting the trend currently playing out. At the time of the announcement, a representative from Gallo noted that the pivot was in response to market assessment.

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Cheers

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

From 2022 to 2023, both brands grew more than 100%, according to The Beverage Information Group’s Industry Overview Handbook. Compared to 2013, the percent change in RTD consumption for 2023 was a whopping 895.5%. in 2023; it was the only spirits category to attain double-digit growth. RTDs consumption increased 35.0%

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VinePair

MAY 22, 2025

We first discussed RNDCs woes here at Hop Take in January 2025, when Titos Vodka announced its departure from the wholesaler for RBG. told Hop Take back in August 2023, shortly after hed co-organized seven distributors into a consortium called California Beverage Solution (CBS). Zoom out a bit, and youll start to see a pattern.

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The Whiskey Wash

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This particular expression was also ranked #11 in Whisky Advocates Top 20 Most Exciting Whiskies of 2023. Beyond whiskey, the distillery crafts gin, vodka, and rum, offering a celebrated visitor experience with tours, tastings, and a gourmet restaurant. s Jackalope is part of the Alchemy Series Magnificent Beasts.

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The Whiskey Wash

JANUARY 31, 2025

decline from 2022 to 2023 – the brand’s position at the top of the global liqueur market remains unchallenged. million cases sold globally 2023: 8.2 The Australian market embraced Baileys so enthusiastically that liquor stores began posting “arriving next week” signs to manage demand. million cases.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2025

That recovery followed a rocky 2023, when sales dipped 14 percent, but the category is back on the up thanks to key new markets like India and Australia. Irish whiskey exports enjoyed a bounce-back in 2024, climbing 13 percent to more than $1.1 billion (1 billion) in value, according to the Irish Whiskey Association.

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VinePair

APRIL 2, 2025

This beguilingly tart-sweet Martini has become Culics secret weapon for turning consumers onto the potential of fruit brandy, which, when they sip on its own, they tend to confuse with flavored vodka. In 2023, a year that saw U.S. That is, unless youre a bartender. At Wicked Rabbit in Omaha, Neb.,

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Our sales mix is 51% liquor, beer and wine versus food, which is pretty rare for a corporate concept especially one our size. Bar Louie also has a few Spiked Sangrias house mixed to order, and Spiked Dessert Drinks such as the new Whole Lotta Latte, made with Smirnoff caramel vodka, RumChata, cream, espresso and cinnamon.

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VinePair

JANUARY 30, 2025

Titos Handmade Vodka, the best-selling liquor in the U.S., The experience prompted its former president, Peter Heimark, who still owns and operates his familys eponymous distributorship, to form a wholesaler coalition called California Beverage Solutions in 2023.) Earlier this week, it announced itd bagged a big one.

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