BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY NAMED VISITOR ATTRACTION OF THE YEAR
WHISKY MAGAZINE has named Buffalo Trace Distillery its 2O17 Icons of Whisky America Visitor Attraction of the Year. The Distillery’s Visitor Center Manager, Matt Higgins was also highly commended for Visitor Attraction Manager of the Year. To support its ever-growing visitation, Buffalo Trace Distillery has more than doubled capacity with... Read More
SAZERAC COMPANY INVESTS IN BITTERMENS
BITTERS ARE BIG business these days as mixologists continue to embrace them in the ever-evolving cocktail world. As evidence of this, one of the oldest producers of cocktail bitters in the United States is joining forces with the company that helped spearhead the modern bitters resurgence, as Sazerac recently purchased... Read More
CUERVO STRIKES GOLD
FEBRUARY WAS A very, very good month for the makers of Jose Cuervo Tequila. The initial public offering for the brand raised more than $9OO million, the company announced. Shares in Cuervo, which were priced at the top of the expected range at 34 pesos, jumped by more than 8... Read More
OAXACAN OLD FASHIONED
by PINK LADY WE LUPEC LADIES love our tequila, and we feel equal adoration for another agave spirit hailing from Mexico: mezcal. For many decades mezcal got a bad rep here in the US as tequila’s inferior cousin, made cheaply and featuring a giant booze-soaked worm as hallmark. But oh,... Read More
DAVID STARE’S DRY CREEK VINEYARD HE WENT WEST
by HARVEY FINKEL LET US GO THEN, you and I, returning to the early days of yesteryear, at the dawning of the modern vinous age on the Pacific Coast, when David Stare trekked from eastern Massachusetts to western California, the wine grail image ever before him, to establish Dry Creek... Read More
STINKBUGS LOVE THEIR WINE
HOW MANY stressed-out stinkbugs does it take to spoil a batch of wine? While one might logically assume that one stinkbug would be one too many, it’s actually more than three per grape cluster, new research says. Stinkbugs are a pest among vintners because of the bugs’ taste for wine... Read More
A TRUE CHAMPAGNE HOUSE
SOME PEOPLE fantasize of living in a house filled with bottles of Champagne. For Eldar Ilchibayev, a builder from western Russia’s Ural Mountains, the dream was to build a house entirely out of bottles and he has now completed his mission. Ilchibayev recently finished construction of a house made from... Read More
THE MOËT & CHANDON CHAMPAGNE VENDING MACHINE
A VENDING MACHINE that dispenses bubbly? That’s a dream come true! Of course, you have to go to Vegas for this experience (naturally!). The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Vegas opened a Moët & Chandon vending machine in its 23rd floor Sky Lobby. The adults-only machine dispenses splits – mini-bottles of... Read More
COLLECTING? PUT THOSE PENNIES INTO WINE
MOVE OVER CARS, wine’s back! When it comes to collectibles, the best place to invest in 2O16 was (literally) in liquid assets. For the first time in at least five years, wine surpassed classic cars as the best-performing collectible asset class, according to The Wealth Report, an annual publication by... Read More
CHILE
by SANDY BLOCK WHEN I BEGAN visiting Chile in the 199Os, familiarizing myself with its wines and regions, the country’s industry was just beginning to emerge as a player on the international scene. Chileans were starting to address the needs of the export markets, which required planting popular grape varieties... Read More