On 24 March, the European Union and Australia announced the agreement of a bilateral free trade deal that, according to the Australian government, will see “98% of the current value of Australia’s exports entering the European Union duty-free”. It was a deal that followed eight years of negotiations and arrived just two months after the signing of a landmark trade deal between the EU and…
Salón, which was founded by Megs Miller in 2022, has been without a permanent home since the closure and sale of Casa Prunes at the end of last year, where the tasting room had occupied the top floor. Ahead of the reopening, Drinks International caught up with Miller to find out about the future of Salón de Agave and how the new venue opens the…
Taking to Instagram, World Class announced in a statement: “Given the current situation in the region, we have taken the difficult decision to relocate. “…
Sourmpatis joined the team in August 2017 and has helped the bar to numerous accolades including seven placements on The World’s 50 Best Bars and The Legend of the List award in 2023. …
When did we all become so health-obsessed? It’s hard to pinpoint exactly – our relationship to our own bodies has evolved as we have – but it has almost always been a pursuit of society’s most privileged, see the elites of ancient Greece and the gymnasium, the Imperial House of Japan and onsen, or Victorian socialites and their fad diets – tapeworm anyone? Really, the…
The offer opens a potential bidding war for the Jack Daniel’s owner as negotiations continue with Pernod Ricard over a potentially landmark merger of the two groups. The offer tabled by Buffalo Trace-owner, Sazerac, has been reported at $32 per share, higher than the $29.57 share valuation that Brown-Forman closed at on Wednesday 15 April. Speaking to analysts after Pernod published its third-quarter sales figures,…
Brewdog has never been about subtlety. Since founding the company in Aberdeenshire in 2007, Martin Dickie and James Watt had seemed to enjoy courting controversy and leaning into the For Punks mantra that has been ascribed to everything associated with the Brewdog brand. Fifteen years later, the enfants terribles of the UK craft beer revolution had taken their operations from a derelict industrial unit in…
Here, the design of the venue and the drinks themselves draw inspiration from heroes, both real and of fantasy. “Hero has got a really cool vibe to it,” says Richie Barrow, the group food & beverage general manager for Tribe Hotels Group, which owns Nairobi’s Trademark Hotel, home to Hero Bar. “One of the reasons that it’s made some waves perhaps, is that it’s not…
Nairobi is a city on the move. The past decades have seen the Kenyan capital fast transform into a vibrant, modern metropolis. Vast high rises are replacing older, informal settlements as the city has become the centre of a rapidly developing tech industry referred to as the Silicon Savannah. And it’s growing at a staggering rate. Its population has doubled to six million inhabitants since…
In total, TBA volume fell by 2% and value by 4% in 22 markets that account for 75% of the global alcohol market. The declines were driven primarily by a drop in consumption of national spirits, particularly baijiu in China. With the national spirits category removed, the year-on-year TBA value was flat. “2025 was a particularly difficult trading environment for the beverage alcohol industry,” said…
