English wine and beer producer Chapel Down Group saw sales climb 33% to £3.25m, with gross profit up 31% to £1.17m.

A new online marketplace that enables private investors to buy and sell Scotch whiskies early on in the maturation process has been launched.

The new International Spirits Challenge whisky chairman, Richard Paterson of Whyte & Mackay, is celebrating 45 years in the whisky industry this year.

The Isle of Arran Distillery has released the first of its limited edition Smugglers’ Series whiskies, which celebrates the distillery’s 21^st birthday.

Global Brands has launched House of Cocktails, a new range of premixed cocktails available to the UK off trade.

Pernod Ricard has announced the global release of Jameson Caskmates, following a trial in Ireland last year.

Glenmorangie’s Bill Lumsden is to scotch whisky what Dr Who is to the BBC. Christian Davis travels to Ardbeg to meet the man who makes Glenmorangie and Ardbeg

After the "normalisation" of Cuban-American relations this summer, DI's business columunist Hamish Smith tells us when to expect the doors of bussiness to swing open and what it will mean for the rum industry

Having all the subtlety of a Bee Gees bouffant, the cocktails of the 70s were perhaps the least likely contenders for a comeback. Yet Hamish Smith finds otherwise

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Hamish smith took some time out of Tales to meet with Julio Bermejo – one of the bartending industry’s old-school personalities

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