db’s top 10 most read stories of 2020 23rd December, 2020 by Lucy Shaw
From drunk elephants and a whisky-loving Pope to Ryan Reynolds apologising to The Rock, we bring you to our top ten most read news stories of 2020.
10: Ryan Reynolds apologises to The Rock over Aviation acquisition
In August, actor-turned-spirits investor Ryan Reynolds apologised to fellow actors-turned-spirits moguls George Clooney and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson after selling his gin company for US$610 million to drinks giant Diageo.
Anyone who tried to email the
Deadpool star received an automated response stating: “Thanks for your email. I am currently out of the office but will still be very hard at work selling Aviation Gin. For quite a long time, it seems.”
Whisky is big business, and no more so than in 2020 it seems. With distilleries temporarily closing due to Covid restrictions and production slowing, casks produced in 2020 are predicted to become some of the rarest and most valuable in the future, believes cask whisky investment company Whiskey and Wealth Club.
While it will be some years before that prediction is proven true, 2020 has certainly been tumultuous, which could well see it remembered as a “significant time for the history of the whisky industry”, the company has said.
Predicting the future’s big selling drams is an inherently risky business, but what is clear is that the whisky investment has never been more buoyant, with returns typically outpacing wine, art and jewellery, with the value of whisky rising by 582% since 2009, according to Knight Frank’s 2019 Wealth Report.