White rum very much has its place in category’s renaissance
Much of the current talk of a ‘rumnaissance’ (sorry, but after the ‘ginnaissance’, it was kind of inevitable) revolves around…
Category Comment - Unaged Spirits
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Diageo’s Archers cast-off offers a bleak glimpse into hard seltzer’s future
In my student days, it would be charitable to say that my peers and I were eclectic in our tastes…
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Why trio of deals could mark significant shift for Pernod Ricard in North America
Long, long ago, when I first started writing about the global drinks industry, the big story of the day was…
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Emerging markets mean gin isn’t yesterday’s news
Tuning into Diageo’s full-year results announcement this week, I was left pondering one question above all others: where’s the gin?…
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US spirits consumers state their future preferences. Any surprises?
At first glance, there’s an air of predictability about the key findings in e-commerce delivery platform Drizly’s fourth 'Consumer Trends…
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Has whisky finally found the flavour grail? – comment
Does anybody out there remember Ginger Grouse - later rechristened The Famous Ginger Grouse? Anybody? Oh well. Nearly a decade…
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Why unaged spirits brand owners should – finally – consider China
For international alcohol brand owners, the early promise of China’s burgeoning economic growth in the first decade of the 21st…
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What’s coming up in unaged spirits in 2022? – Predictions for the Year Ahead – comment
We’ve grown accustomed in the past few decades to think of the global economy – and the consumer marketplace that…
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Narrow and deep or broad and shallow? The spirits industry’s dilemma – comment
What really caught my eye about this month’s unveiling of a redesigned bottle for Diageo's Gordon’s gin brand wasn’t so…
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Why UK tax changes on spirits are also playing out in the US – comment
We used to know where we stood with UK Budget announcements. The beverage alcohol industry made lots of hopefully positive…
