Sales of Captain Morgan rum will one day catch up with Bacardi, according to Diageo.Talking to Drinks International, Russell Jones, Captain Morgan ...

Spanish wine company Miguel Torres is about to usher in the fifth generation of its family to the apex of its business, following the announcement ...

Legislation granting permanent normal trade relations status (PNTR) to Russia has been introduced to the US Senate. The Distilled Spirits Council ...

Diageo has successfully closed its public offer to acquire an additional 10.62% stake in Hanoi Liquor Joint Stock Company (Halico) in Vietnam. The ...

Vergelegen, one of South Africa’s best wine producers, has unveiled a new wine, DNA.André van Rensburg, one of South Africa’s finest who courts ...

The price of wine and spirits has risen by more than twice the level of inflation, according to the latest WSTA Market Report.In its latest market ...

Gallo Family Vineyards has partnered with Australian celebrity, Holly Valance, to publicise its newly launched Moscato wine in the UK.According ...

Analysts from data research company Euromonitor International get beyond the numbers of The Millionaires' Club to provide insight on the movers, ...

Żubrówka Biała has gained inclusion into The Millionaires’ Club 2012 after becoming CEDC’s second biggest brand and the world's 83rd largest ...

The House Janneau has released some limited edition armagnacs, called the Dragon Vintages.Aimed at the Asian and especially the Chinese market, ...

Bacardi Martini BV has announced the appointment of Rich Andrews as managing director of the UK & Ireland Business Unit and a member of the ...

Pernod Ricard has announced several senior management moves "in line with its policy of internal promotion and international mobility".Lionel ...

Grant's master blender Brian Kinsman has recreated William Grant's whisky - Stand Fast.Using William Grant's notes, Kinsman has made 100 bottles ...

Ronnie Cox cut his whisky-selling teeth in the often inhospitable environment of 1980s Latin America. Hamish Smith meets the Berry Bros charmer "I'VE ...

The category is densely populated and very competitive in the mainstream, but there are rich pickings to be had as liqueurs gain a new status. ...

German wines are world class but they are predominately white and the world wants red. It is a niche player in terms of volume, so how is it ...

Luxury drinks brands are managing to make the recession work for them, top global designers tell Lucy Britner THE ROLLS ROYCE. It’s a design ...

The South American spirit may have failed to make much international impact in its 450-year history, but a new generation of producers are determined ...

If the name’s Grant and the place is Scotland, the chances are the game’s whisky. Lucy Britner meets a Grant at Glenfarclas THE GRANT NAME ...

Consumers in Australia’s top two export markets are abandoning its wines for cheaper alternatives leaving producers wondering if Asia will grow ...

Although vodka can be mixed with anything and everything, producers in eastern and central Europe prefer the light touch when it comes to cocktails. ...

It’s not just about the spirit when it comes to making great cocktails. Jaq Bayles celebrates the other essential elements A GOOD COCKTAIL ...

Brazil’s national spirit is confined mostly to its own country’s shores. But Hamish Smith unearths a number of factors that look about to change ...

One of South Africa’s best and certainly most controversial winemakers, André van Rensburg, was in London yesterday for the unveiling of his ...

It was a glitteirng evening at Jamaica House in the island's capital, Kingston. A balmy evening in a superb setting.  The Jamaican prime minister, ...

The Jamaican prime minister will launch Wray & Nephew's 'Jamaica Independence Reserve' at a special unveiling tonight at Jamaica House in ...

Credit to Pernod. The company has done a fine job this week in extolling the success of scotch whisky around the world and in telling important ...

Irish Distillers launched Yellow Spot, ‘son of Green Spot’, last night in London. The great and the good of whisk(e)y’s fourth estate crammed ...

Hands up who was watching The Apprentice last night on BBC?  The teams had to promote awareness of English sparkling wine.They managed to make ...

Former Drinks International editor Patience Gould is puzzled by scotch that’s marketed to women like perfume As a woman and a serious spirits ...

Fred Noe is approaching 57 and he’s just had his first tattoo.When I sit down with him in London, the Jim Beam master distiller rolls up his ...

Drinks journalists tend to hunt in packs. We might prefer to do our interviews alone but for everything else, we enjoy the company of other drinks ...

It is not every day you get to try a whisky that is going to cost a punter £100,000, plus VAT.  Today I got to try the Diamond Jubliee by John ...

Last night I went to Boisdale, that well known London haunt for whisky, cigar and red meat lovers, for the launch of The Balvenie Craftsman's ...

I am being followed. Right now. By hundreds – well about a hundred – people. I haven’t gone mad, I’ve got a Twitter account...And a Facebook ...

There are three of them are at the bar and they’re drunk. Not just a little tipsy but swaying, shouting, obnoxious and it’s only 2pm. I’m at ...

We’re all interested in ‘what’s going to be next?’ Well I returned recently from New York where, courtesy of Pernod Ricard/Irish Distillers I ...

Drinks International is delighted to announce that Patience Gould, its former editor and a well known figure in the drinks industry, is returning ...

Just sorted out the December issue.  A 44-pager at the moment: features on Brazil, Japanese whisky, the 'world famous DI Dozen', Vodka in the ...

We have just finalised the DI Dozen for 2011.  these are the products, companies, categories, sectors that have caught our eye...This year we ...

I was in a Harrods window yesterday. How did I feel? Yes, you guessed it. A bit like a dummy. Martell Cognac has taken about three windows until ...

I’ve got boobs. Thanks for noticing, drinks industry. I’ve got boobs therefore I need my own special drink. You’re right, drinks-makers, and ...

Consider terroir. I have. It’s a rather haughty unit of French vernacular (which is a haughty way of saying ‘word’) that describes the characteristics ...

Seventy-five thousand pounds, or US$122,433 or €85,613, for a bottle of wine is mind boggling. OK, it’s Château d’Yquem, but from 1811. It was ...

Do you meet the Russian Standard? I recently met Russian Standard vodka founder Roustam Tariko’s college roommate. In fact, he works for the ...

I made my own gin! While it was bubbling away in a tiny Florence Flask (bulb-bottomed glass flask), I was getting excited about a potential second ...

Is it possible that consumers are looking to express their individuality through the medium of drink? Or is the desire for non-conformity, or ...

The word ‘summit’ conjures imagery of political brinkmanship, the thrashing out of peace accords or perhaps poverty-eradicating debt reduction. So ...

I’m not very good at geography. When I finished the WSET Advanced course in Wines & Spirits I vowed I wasn’t going to do the Diploma. The ...

We’re stepping back in time to Britner’s Beers this month and it’s down the rocky road of beer and food matching we go. It seems just about every ...