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Spirits boomed in the US last year despite on-trade losses 29th January, 2021 by Roger Morris Sales of spirits boomed in the US last year, despite restaurants and bars being closed for much of 2020, according to a new report from the Distilled Spirits Council of the US. Spirits sales boomed in the US last year despite the closure of the on-trade The report, released yesterday, found that stay-at-home families stocked up on American whiskeys, Tequila, Cognac and pre-mixed cocktails in the US last year. “Tariffs and the pandemic left a wake of destruction in the hospitality industry in 2020,” Chris Swonger, president and CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council of the US, or Discus, said. ....
db meets: John MacDonald of Balblair 22nd January, 2021 by Roger Morris We catch up with Balblair’s longstanding distillery manager to find out about his plans for Burns Night next Monday and what lies in store for the Highlands distillery this year. It will be a quiet Burns Night in Scotland this year, but John MacDonald, distillery manager at Balblair since 2006, still plans to savour his haggis with an 18 Year Old single malt. As with most people during the Covid-19 lockdowns, over the past year MacDonald has had to adjust his plans. He won’t, however, be abandoning the annual celebration of Burns Night on Monday 25 January; the Scottish holiday honouring the poet Robert Burns, who died on that date in 1796. ....
The US wine industry is poised to bounce back in 2021, according to a report by Silicon Valley Bank, with a consumer desire to celebrate set to help drive wine sales this year. ....
Lenders grow and restructure teams to reflect new demands By Rebekah Commane 6 th January 2021 10:30 am As the nation adapts to another lockdown, intermediary lenders are recruiting and making changes to their teams to best assist brokers in the current working environment. Accord Mortgages has appointed 26 new team members across its sales and underwriting teams. The lender says that the additions are needed to maintain service levels in 2021. The sales team will be increased with two new business development advisers who will be supporting the webchat function and supporting brokers with queries on new business applications. Accord is also recruiting three new telephone business development managers to help support brokers in more areas of the UK. The roles will be home-based and the successful applicants will be responsible for managing broker relationships via telephone, email and webchat. ....
How low-intervention wines went from a niche market to a global hit Lo-fi wine: the natural wine movement has long resisted attempts to be defined. Photograph: Getty Images Lo-fi wine: the natural wine movement has long resisted attempts to be defined. Photograph: Getty Images Sun 3 Jan 2021 01.00 EST Solara Natural Red, Romania 2019 (£10.50, noblegreenwines.co.uk) The back-to-basics natural wine movement has had an enormous impact on the way wine is made and sold in the past couple of decades. As I wrote in these pages back in April, having long resisted any attempts to pin down exactly what the term meant, some of the loosely defined, slightly anarchic group of producers that line up under the natural umbrella in France set out some rules for a new official category, Vin Méthode Nature last year. Grapes must be organic or biodynamic; yeasts must be wild (as opposed to commercially cultivated); and there are strict limits on the use of the preservative sulphur d ....