VinePair

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

About 15 years ago, the nascent craft spirits industry was awash in vodka. A few distillers did make vodka from whole ingredients, including West Virginia’s Smooth Ambler , which used the same mash bill as its wheated bourbon. “We Vodka usually sells because it’s well priced or well marketed and ours was neither.”

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Cheers

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Brandy isn’t flying off the shelf via individual pours, but guests are enjoying plenty of it through cocktails, says Charles Joly, beverage director of The Riff Raff Room in New York. DUss Cognac has been accelerating on-premise efforts with cocktails such as the D’Uss Spicy Sidecar.

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A Bar Above

JUNE 2, 2024

Copyright A Bar Above, generated with AI This herbal liqueur brings an earthy note to cocktails that isn’t easily replicated, and it comes in two versions, detailed below– one with a light olive color (Green) and one with a bright yellow hue (Yellow). More on that in a minute.)

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), Japanese whisky was the fastest-growing luxury spirit from 2015 to 2020, with volume sales increasing 42 percent in that period. Its growth carried into this decade, with the category reporting a 30 percent sales volume increase in 2023 alone. “I The color is a bonus.”

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its been a marathon, not a sprint for him, says Shannon Fischer, a publicist who first met Asare-Appiah when he was brand ambassador for ULuvka vodka in the late aughts. After the social awakening of 2020 and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, people started paying more attention. For me, its been long overdue, the recognition.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Cocktail culture is strong, and is probably about as strong as its been in the last 10 years, says Mat Snapp, a partner in Barter and Shake, the consultancy behind Phoenixs award-winning concept bar, Century Grand. With nearly 2 million residents in the city, everything in Arizonas capital is growing fastincluding its bar scene.

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