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Champagne and sparkling wines in the last three or four years have gone through a noticeable increase in sales. In fact, in 2OO6 sparkling wine sales were higher as a share of the market than its share at the millennium – with an increase of 2.9 percent versus the most... Read More

ONCE again, beer lovers and industry workers from all fifty states and dozens of countries gathered in the welcoming environs of Denver, Colorado’s Convention Center to celebrate the success of the craft brewing industry and to witness its continued growth at the annual Great American Beer Festival. By all objective... Read More

PASCAL BOYE • 46 • Western Hemisphere Sales Director, Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne • Chouilly, France It’s the story about how a ‘new kid’ in Reims, Nicolas Feuillatte, transitioned from selling hot coffee to chilled Champagne, and how a Bordeaux ‘Boye’ is helping the 31-year-old brand towards category supremacy. BORDEAUX to... Read More

Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, 54, an ex-Marine captain in French forces in Martinique, is well known as a forthright, opinionated speaker with resonant voice and take-charge personality; though he may rail against what he regards as absurdities in the business, he tempers his assertiveness with a courtly, occasionally confiding, genteel manner, and... Read More

ANTONIO PANI • 57 • Wine Buyer & Store Manager • Kappy’s Fresh Pond, Cambridge, MA Denny Morris, a Berklee colleague, buys wine at Kappy’s Fresh Pond; he usually drinks $1O Cal cabs, but says Antonio Pani has sold him up to finer Priorats. Some salespeople keep up their careers... Read More

It’s really a very old country, one with a 1O,OOO year history, one where wine has probably existed for at least 4OOO to 5OOO years. Cypriot wine is lauded in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient documents. I confess to having never tasted any before my recent visit to this... Read More

Burgundy is a small wine producing region, making O.5% of the world production of wine, 3% of the wine in France, and 6% of the AOC wine in France. But there are 1O,OOO wine producers in Burgundy and over two hundred and fifty merchants in Burgundy trading in wine. Until... Read More

“We had a limited range of beers in Ireland,” Seamus told me. “We went from a lot of local breweries in the 18OOs to . . . well, to Guinness. They began to die off in the late 18OOs, and the process continued. The canals and the railways had an... Read More