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/30 Oct 2015
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Eat. Sleep. Celebra. Repeat. With Tecate Light This Holiday Season

From Thanksgiving to Dia de Reyes, Tecate Light is bringing the boldness of the holiday season to life with a comprehensive, 360° program that offers consumers everything they need to kick-start their holiday celebrations. The fully-integrated retail promotion, including digital partnerships with Pandora and Ibotta, bold in-store displays and attractive...
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/13 Oct 2015
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Pernod Ricard Renews Relationship With Martignetti Companies

Pernod Ricard USA announced that it has renewed its agreement with Martignetti Companies in Massachusetts and in Rhode Island with Rhode Island Distributing, its partnership with the Mancini Family. “Pernod Ricard has a strong relationship and an excellent track record with Martignetti”, said Bryan Fry, President and CEO, Pernod Ricard...
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/29 Mar 2012
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THE FAMILY BUSINESS

Marty Siegal, the owner of Marty’s in Newtonville, has been working in liquor retail for 44 years. (“We’ll make that from when I turned 21, let’s keep this legal,” he told me, adding that he got married that same year.) The family’s liquor business dates from 1948, when Marty’s grandfather...
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/29 Mar 2012
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A DRINK WITH ALEXEI BERATIS

If you’ve been in this industry awhile, you’ve likely been served a drink by Alexei Beratis.  From behind the bar to behind the scene of some of Boston’s hottest bars and restaurants, Beratis now divides his time between beverage consulting(he owns Of the Spirits Beverage Consulting) and running the newly...
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/29 Mar 2012
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ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH: THE ROSITA

We LUPEC ladies love agave spirits – and few things beat a good margarita.  Every once in a while, though, it’s nice to have your tequila strong and stirred. The Rosita is a perfect solution.  Made with tequila, Campari, sweet and dry vermouth, it’s an aperitif reminiscent of the Negroni...
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/29 Mar 2012
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WINES OF THE VOLCANO

SANTORINI Now a much desired destination and source of estimable wines, Santorini is defined by volcanic and seismic upheavals. What is today a small archipelago among Greece’s Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea are remnants of the rim of an enormous ancient volcano surrounding the submerged former caldera, eight by...
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/29 Feb 2012
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The State Of Whisk(e)y in Massachusetts

It wasn’t too long ago that having an extensive whiskey selection was limited to a few specialty bars and stores. Most places simply stocked the standard call brands, because whiskey was not a staple on cocktail menus or “on trend” with mojito and martini obsessed consumers. What a difference a...
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/29 Feb 2012
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Endangered Cocktails: Boilermaker

Winter doldrums got you down?Can’t cope with the T anymore?Getting through a romantic break-up?Wondering what do drink after you’ve sent in your anonymous gripe?The Boilermaker, of course. A series of in-depth interviews with John Gertsen of Drink yielded the following: “I believe that all of the earliest saloon drinking was...
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/29 Feb 2012
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Sassicaia

SANDY BLOCK, MW The Sassicaia story is well known. Italy’s original, and in many ways still most emblematic, “Super Tuscan,” the wine’s very existence has probably had more indirect impact in elevating the country’s image internationally than any other. It was the first sustained attempt to create a world-class wine...
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/29 Feb 2012
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Oregon Today

Return to the Willamette Valley NEWBERG, OREGON To understand the wine scene in Oregon today, it helps to look back 6O million years to its genesis in the formation of the land, then, contracting the time scale, review the last 5O years. During this recent time, the scene has gone...
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/31 Jan 2012
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Profile: LEN PRESUTTI

LEN PRESUTTICorporate Wine EducatorMartignetti Companies, Norwood SOME GUYS keep up their careers going full steam ahead – sixty-year-old Len Presutti is one of them, combining youthful vigor, extreme work ethic, jazz fervor, devotion to cooking and baking, and burning passions for the table and grape.  Now in his 25th year...
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