It would seem our local liquor store has a new Robert Mondavi wine, the Vint Cabernet Sauvignon. Robert Mondavi is a legend in California winemaking, and they have something for everyone. From premium high priced award winners to wines that everyone can afford. This one falls in the latter ...
better availability, six times the number of wineries as in 1975, and even the aforementioned screwcaps — Americans, on a per capita basis, still drank three times as much beer as wine and twice as much hard liquor as wine, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol...
Our wines are slowly evolving in their decanters and the leg of lamb properly rested, it’s juices evenly spread within, were “calling” us back to the table, Etienne following me back to the kitchen, as I steamed the tender spinach, cut the oven baked shimeji mushrooms off their stem,...
Save Your Drinks for Toasts:While it may be tempting to drink your Chinese wine or Chinese liquor as part of your meal (and the Chinese generally won’t care if you do), you’ll earn lots of respect from your Chinese drinking partners if you save your drinks for toasts or a casual cl...
When we did our first Sabi Sands “Big 5” safari, we tried the country’s signature red Pinotage for the first time and fell in love with its bold juicy taste. Now when we head to the local liquor store, South African wines strut to the top of our “Maybe we should buy this wine...
In May 1997, thenACTChief Minister Kate Carnell announced an agreement between her government and South Australian winemakerBRLHardy Limited. She says she stitched up the agreement with the help of Canberra liquor retailer Jim Murphy. Carnell recalls seeing opportunities for Canberra wine as part of...
The event was billed as a tasting of the “Top 100” wines and, while meeting with the man who had organized the event, I asked him what it meant that a wine was considered a “Top 100.” Obviously, he told me, they were wines from his portfolio (he ran the wine and liquor ...
In Canada government wine and liquor shops are key sales vectors. The support of Ontario’s Liquor Control Board (in addition to successful viral marketing) seems to have made Fuzion a hit in a market that is otherwise very difficult to penetrate. (At one time the Ontario Liquor Control ...
Nielsen measured consumer attitudes and purchase behavior within multiple purchase channels, including warehouse clubs, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drug stores, liquor stores and wine shops. The scan data were supplemented with online interviews to classify consumers by Project Genome consumer segments...
This is obviously substantially different to Meek's initial prediction concerning the buoyancy of the market for cheap liquor. He provided a welcome challenge to a deeply ingrained narrative; the wine trade has been claiming for years that the forces of premiumization are on an unstoppable march. ...