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Grocer Launches Online Wine Shop with Home Deliveries

Safeway and Albertsons launched Vine & Cellar, a collection of expertly curated wines available online, shipped directly to customer homes. Available now exclusively in California, Vine & Cellar boasts an expanded assortment of wine varietals and global wine regions. “We are launching Vine & Cellar to give our customers and

Bourbon Gains Share Point on Drizly; Scotch Down a Bit, Irish Up

Bourbon inched up 1 percentage point to 40% on Drizly thus far this year, as did Irish whiskey, but Scotch whisky lost 2 share points, as Drizly reported its sales in the whiskey category. Broadly, whiskies overall share of liquor category sales declined slightly during the past 12 months from

[BND] Your Morning Briefing --

Good Morning, and Happy Tuesday, September 26, 2023 University of Iowa Patient Brews Craft Beer to Help Fight Eye Disease The University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research has discovered a potential cure and preventative treatments for rare heritable conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and one of the most common forms

Who & What --

DIED: Eddie Osterland, America's first Master Sommelier. He earned the Master Sommelier title in London in 1973. He authored a book, Power Entertaining, and ran a lifestyle coaching business based around wine to help executives strengthen customer relationships, design annual client-appreciation events and execute corporate events.

Non-Al Red Blend from Surely Now Available

Surely introduces the latest addition to its award-winning portfolio of non-alcoholic wines - a Non-Alcoholic Red Blend made to redefine the category. Far from a flat, boring and watery non-alcoholic replacement, Surely’s Red Blend is layered, bold and complex enough to appeal to the most dedicated

Monterey Wine to Use Paper Bottles

Monterey Wine Co. said it is the first American company to agree to buy equipment needed to make paper wine bottles. It expects to receive the machine in January and hopes to be shipping paper bottles by the spring. It bought the equipment form Frugalpac, which designs and manufactures paper