BEAM GLOBAL SPIRITS & WINE
FLORENCE PRAMBERGER has been appointed as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. She joins Beam Global after a four-year career at Campbell Soup Company. Pramberger takes the helm from MIKE GOLDBERG, who led the Beam Global human resource function for 12 of his 15 years with the company. Goldberg will... Read More
The CLAIM A LITTLE ALCOHOL CAN HELP YOU BEAT a COLD
WHEN IT COMES TO QUICK REMEDIES for colds, many people insist that a glass of brandy or a hot toddy – whiskey with hot water and lemon juice – is just what the doctor ordered. It’s not difficult to see how mild inebriation might have the potential to relieve cold... Read More
NEW MEASURES AIM to PROTECT SCOTCH WHISKY
THE WESTMINSTER GOVERNMENT will publish detailed legislative proposals to give Scotch whisky Champagne-style geographical definitions to protect the industry from counterfeiting. The move – put out for consultation with a view to introducing new laws in the spring – will be a major boost in the fight against second-rate and... Read More
IN RESPONSE to the RESULTS of the 2OO7 MONITORING the FUTURE SURVEY
Brewers and beer importers are encouraged by data showing once again that the number of teens who drink continued a decade-long decline in all measured categories. The survey shows that 8th and 1Oth grade past-month drinking has declined 37 percent and 22 percent, respectively, since first surveyed in 1991. Additionally,... Read More
COURT in INDIA SAYS WOMAN ALLOWED to TEND BAR
WOMEN WILL BE ALLOWED to work as bartenders in New Delhi, India’s Supreme Court ruled, upholding a lower court’s decision that an earlier ban was unconstitutional. The city authorities had wanted the ban reinstated, arguing that women needed to be protected from the bad behavior of drunken New Delhi men.... Read More
Beer: Why Not Women?
Suppose your store has two doors There isn’t really any difference between them, just that one is on the wine side of your store, and the other is on the beer side (we’ll assume you have your spirits in the middle). When someone comes in the beer door, you show... Read More
Wine and Global Warning
This February, in Barcelona, Spain, will be the Climate Change & Wine 2OO8 conference. Normally, I try to get people to join me for a conference, but this time I’m hoping someone else attends and reports back to me. Just to define it, “climate” is the average temperature over a... Read More
LBV Ports
After explosive growth in the 199Os, Port sales in the US have been in the doldrums, flat to negative, this entire decade. The larger trend is that the entire fortified wine category has contracted. Despite periodic calls to “re-invent” itself and become more relevant to younger consumers, the major fortifieds... Read More
The Wines of Murcia
Murcia lies on the Mediterranean, in the Levante (east), where its still-active chief port, Cartagena, and the surrounding country were initially settled by Phoenicians (those great spreaders of viniculture) from Carthage around 225 BCE. Acquired by Rome (another vinous vector) in 2O9 BCE during the Punic Wars, the port was... Read More
Profile: George Schwartz
GEORGE SCHWARTZ • 51 • Northeast Regional Sales Manager • VIAS Wines, New York City George Schwartz, a seasoned wine salesman and veteran of the Boston and New England marketplace, who looks at the wine world with a quizzical grin through Raybans perched on his DeNiro-like aquiline nose, is a... Read More