Torres has retained its title of the World’s Most Admired Wine Brand for 2015.

Now in its fourth year, Drinks International's Wine Tourism Awards is back for 2015. Here we have the full results. 

Pernod Ricard has announced the launch of Havana Club Unión - what it claims to be the first-ever Cuban rum made to match cigars.

The London Wine Fair 2015 will “lead” the wine show world for education and content, according to its organiser.

Diageo has pledged to make capital investment to expand local production facilities across distilling, bottling and water treatment as well as increasing its agave farming capacity in Mexico, following the completion of its acquisition of Tequila Don Julio last week.

Champagne shipments edged 0.7% ahead on last year, after exports to the UK and US counteracted a decline in France, according to Comite Champagne.

Anivin de France, the organisation responsible for promoting Vin de France wines, has announced that 112 wines have been selected as its ambassador wines for 2015.

Producers of top Spanish brands are hopeful for the future, says Dominic Roskrow

In the latest instalment of the Brandy Report Hamish Smith looks at French brandies from outside of Cognac and Armagnac.

Experimental cask finishes, single cask bottlings and unaged spirits… Ian Buxton has been to Armagnac and finds innovation making advances on tradition 

Could any another brandy styles emulate cognac’s success? Richard Woodard looks at the candidates for premium enlightenment 

Hamish Smith has the latest round of bar openings. Oslo, Mexico City, Manchester and London all feature.

Franco Cabachi, co-founder of Clase Maestra, a Latin American cocktail event held in Lima, Peru.

Strøm from Copenhagen has won the battle of the bars at the inaugural Reykjavik Bar Summit, winning what many observers consider to be the greatest trophy in bar industry history: a stuffed mounted puffin.

David Cordoba is back behind the bar after six years as an ambassador for Bacardi. Drinks International catches up with him at 28 Hongkong Street in Singapore.