Here s what made the drinks headlines on this day in recent years
Wine tariffs are diverting European wine intended for the US to China, according to trade industry groups. The US Wine Trade Alliance and the National Association of Wine Retailers said last year that the wine category in the US is witnessing a direct transfer of the American-European wine trade to China because of ill-advised tariffs on wine.
To many in the UK, the idea that the Californian beer beatniks at Lagunitas were behind the US relaunch in 2019 of Heineken s Newcastle Brown Ale was slightly incongruous. Long-known as Newky Brown or simply The Broon , the beer is associated by many Brits as a working class ale born in England s northern industrial heartlands. That the brand was entrusted to a brewery in northern California created a certain amount of cognitive dissonance.