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September 1, 2008

THE 5TH ANNUAL 42 BELOW COCKTAIL WORLD CUP

Boston had the privilege of being one of nine cities from across the US hosting a finals round to find the top nine bartenders in the country to make up three teams to represent this country in the 42 Below Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand. Bobby Jones from Saint...
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ALTHOUGH DANNY IS NOT THAT BIG . . .

Billy Livingstone and Michael Brody of M.S. Walker, Inc. spent some time with Danny Devito at the WSWA convention talking about the introduction of his new Danny Devito’s Limoncello, imported from Italy and made from his family’s recipe. He has been seen pitching his new brand on many daytime and...
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Full Sails Brewing: Jamie Emmerson

Based in the heart of the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, the Full Sail Brewing Company of Hood River, Oregon, is one of America’s oldest craft breweries.  The brewery is an interesting melange of personalities and attitudes, ranging from assertive American-style ale lovers to hard core Germanophiles.  Backed by its powerful...
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Shafer.

When I first became acquainted with the wines of Shafer Vineyards and met John Shafer – it must have been more than 25 years ago – two impressions engraved themselves on my mind: all the wines tasted so good right from the first; the charm and intelligence of John Shafer....
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And with Austrian wines today…

Austrians, however, have totally renovated and moved forward their wine industry, from the low-cost-driven sweet wine industry that prevailed in the 197Os and early 198Os to the dry, mid-priced wines that characterize today’s industry. The pivot point for this change was 1985 when unethical producers adulterated wine with di-ethylene glycol....
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How it is today with Straight Whiskeys . . .

I get packages shipped by FedExI get letters and documents carried by DHLI got the computer I’m writing this on delivered by UPS They have imaginative ads, great services, and snappy graphics on their trucks and cargo jets. High-end service, very profitable, a specialist market. But most of the stuff...
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