The rapid expansion of the category comes with its own set of challenges. Oli Dodd looks at how producers are balancing quality, economics and scale.

Increasing grape values and showcasing longer-aged wines are among the initiatives being harnessed by cava producers to improve the way consumers see the sector.

Susan Zimmerman peels back the layers on Mongolia's affinity with vodka and the rituals surrounding its consumption.

As the low and no space continues to evolve, producers and bartenders are turning to bitter iterations to achieve body, flavour and more sophisticated offerings.

What do cricket and limoncello have in common? Until this year, not much. But Australian bowler Adam Zampa, known on Instagram as @limoncello.papi, recently invested in Ambra Limoncello. The brand was launched in Adelaide in 1998 by Libero De Luca and is claimed to be Australia’s first limoncello, using the zest of South Australian lemons. The brand was then taken over by Nando Focareta and…

In this year’s International Spirits Challenge, the Spirit of York Distillery was the only medal-winning aquavit producer that isn’t part of Norway’s Anora Group, the undisputed authority for this traditional Scandinavian spirit. Based in Toronto, Canada, Spirit of York is best known for its gin and vodka production, but in 2018 it launched a rye-based aquavit which uses a combination of its own botanicals and…

The northern Italian wine region of Franciacorta in the province of Brescia boasts some 3,634ha under vine (Franciacorta Consortium). The area earned DOC status in 1967 and later achieved DOCG (Controlled & Guaranteed Designation of Origin) status in 1995. To put that into context, Italy’s best-known sparkler, prosecco, includes around 28,100ha in the DOC area, which produced 616 million bottles in 2023 compared with Franciacorta’s…