E&J Gallo RECEIVES LEADERSHIP AWARD
E&J Gallo Winery was recently awarded the Dale Carnegie Training Leadership Award, making it the first organization in its category to receive this honor. The recognition was awarded to Gallo as an industry leader committed to the development of their employees. Accepting the award on behalf of Joseph E. Gallo,... Read More
AN ULTIMATE CHALLENGE . . . PART II
The inaugural Ultimate Cocktail Challenge was held in New York City in April. Founded by F. Paul Pacult, David Talbot and Sue Woodley, the competition assessed how well individual spirits performed in classic cocktails. Expert judges evaluated how, for example, different gins perform in various classic gin cocktails like the... Read More
The San Francisco World Spirits Competition
celebrated its 1Oth Anniversary in March with a record number of entries, topping last year’s high mark by 17 percent. The competition’s founder and Executive Director, the tasting panel magazine’s Anthony Dias Blue, celebrated the anniversary by introducing mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim as the new Director of Judging. Abou-Ganim joined as... Read More
Ultimate Beverage Challenge’s Ultimate Spirits Challenge
was held in New York in March. Founded by award-winning journalist, author, educator, and critic F. Paul Pacult, wine and spirits publishing industry veteran David Talbot, and spirit journal managing editor Sue Woodley, The first annual Ultimate Beverage Challenge was designed to provide both the industry and consumers with a... Read More
LIQUOR STORE DELIVERIES: A CAUTIONARY TALE
It may seem like a great way to make extra money, particularly in this economy, but the business of liquor delivery could end up costing a store much more than it’s worth. Not surprisingly, minors frequently attempt to order liquor for delivery. What is surprising is how often they seem... Read More
NEWS FLASH: NEW HAMPSHIRE’S SELLING MORE LIQUOR
Was there ever really any doubt that this would happen? In what perhaps is the biggest non-surprise of the year, state liquor sales in New Hampshire are up 4.62 percent since the beginning of the fiscal year, which started July 1, 2OO9. This, of course, is around the time when... Read More
A CROWN JEWEL OF A BOTTLE
A CROWN JEWEL OF A BOTTLEThis takes the luxury spirits concept to a whole new level. Usually it’s the liquor inside the bottle that makes it expensive, but in this case it’s what’s on the outside that has a custom-designed bottle of Chambord worth an estimated $3 million dollars. Brown-Forman... Read More
NEW DISCUS PROGRAM FOR CRAFT PRODUCERS
The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) has a new Craft Distiller Affiliate Membership program designed to organize the growing number of small distilled spirits producers across the nation and alert them to public policy issues affecting the industry at every level of government. In the last decade,... Read More
A SAFER PUB FIGHT
One of the scariest things about bar fights is how quickly they can escalate. And when glasses start getting hurled around, it adds another dimension to the violence. But fear not. Drunken pub fights in Britain (where they’ve seemingly set the gold standard) are set to get safer with the... Read More
THE WHISKY WINNERS ARE . . .
malt advocate has announced the winners of this year’s Whisky Awards. Now in their sixteenth year, this is the oldest and longest-running annual whisky awards program. They honor the world’s greatest whiskies and distilleries, and the individuals who make and promote them. To be eligible for this year’s awards, products... Read More