9O+ CELLARS’ STAR IS RISING
9O+ Cellars has achieved quite a coup d’état. beverage dynamics has named the Boston-based company a “Rising Star Wine”. In order to receive the designation, a brand must be “less than five full years of age, and must have exhibited notable growth over the past few years”. 9O+ Cellars came... Read More
NINER WINE ESTATES
Through an informative recent visit, I have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with a winery previously unfamiliar to me, Niner Wine Estates. Located in Paso Robles, it again confirms that each of California’s Central Coast winegrowing areas is distinctive. Paso Robles, about half way between Los Angeles and San... Read More
MARCO de BARTOLI: A REMEMBRANCE
Marco de Bartoli was one of the key protagonists in the development of a quality Sicilian wine industry. Without the support of the Marsala wine trade, he proposed a version of Marsala that harked back to its historic roots and made no compromises to quality. He awakened Italy to the... Read More
OBITUARY: JESS JACKSON,
JESS JACKSON, 81 An icon of the wine world has passed away. Jess Stonestreet Jackson, the man who revolutionized the Chardonnay industry in the US during the early 198Os with his extraordinarily successful Kendall-Jackson winery and went on to become a pioneering architect of the burgeoning American wine industry, passed... Read More
DON SEBASTIANI & SONS
DON SEBASTIANI & SONS The family-owned wine company has promoted Mike Cekay to Executive Vice President/Global Sales Manager. In his expanded role, Mike will assume day to day responsibility for all Export, Transportation and Travel Channels. Cekay joined Don Sebastiani & Sons in 2OO9 as Senior Vice President, National Sales... Read More
BACARDI LIMITED
BACARDI LIMITED Caroline Basyn has been named the drink company’s Global Chief Information Officer, responsible for all Information Technology activities of Bacardi Limited globally including leading the company’s overall IT strategy and implementation. Previously Basyn was at Procter & Gamble where she was most recently Director of Trade Fund Management... Read More
SPEYBURN SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY
has kicked off the “Speyburn Golden Salmon Sweepstakes”. Speyburn Single Malt is distilled in the Speyside region of the Scottish Highlands using the waters of the Granty Burn. The Burn is connected to the River Spey, which is known for its world-class salmon fishing and the invention of the spey... Read More
ALCOHOL IS NO AMNESIAC!
If you’re drinking to forget you might want to forgo that next cocktail. It turns out that consuming alcohol just may help you remember more than you want. A new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin says that intoxication... Read More
THE INTIMATE INNER LIFE OF OUR LIFELINE
Our blood vessels are not simply passive conduits, but are actively engaged in self-preserving defenses against the stresses they must put up with every millisecond. This is particularly true of arteries, vital carriers of blood laden with oxygen and nutrients to our tissues under high pressure and often amid punishing... Read More
CONTROVERSY IN A CAN
Now that Four Loko has dumped the caffeine and hence, its buzz has fizzled, there’s a new controversy brewing. “Blast” by Colt 45 is a high alcohol malt beverage that comes in flavors such as strawberry lemonade and raspberry watermelon and has an alcohol content of 12%. Naturally, this has... Read More