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Champagne Telmont Successfully Tests Lightest Champagne Bottle

Champagne Telmont said it and French glassmaker Verallia have successfully completed testing the lightest champagne bottle at a record weight of just 800 grams, following their announcement of the experiment last spring. The new champagne bottle is 35 grams lighter than today’s standard champagne bottles while still retaining the

Fresh Vine Wine Depletions Up 58% in Quarter

Fresh Vine Wine, Inc. said distributor depletions in the first quarter of 2023 improved by 58% from the same year ago quarter. In the first quarter of 2023, Fresh Vine added 2,037 new Points-of-Distribution, increasing its footprint by almost a third. Rick Nechio, Interim CEO, said, “The

Wine's On Premise Resurgence

Last year, saw the Wine category declined slightly compared to Beer and Spirits in the On Premise, losing 0.7 percentage points. This downward trajectory was led by table wine, the largest sub-segment of the category, which lost 4.2%. But strip away the top line, and some interesting

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$250 million up in flames: The infamous crime that scarred California’s Wine Country Ted Hall will never forget the moment he realized that his entire 2002 vintage was going up in flames. It was October 2005, at the tail end of the grape harvest in Napa Valley. Hall was

Services Activity Expands

Economic activity in the services sector expanded in March for the third consecutive month as the Services PMI registered 51.2 percent, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM Report On Business. The sector has grown in 33 of the last 34 months,

Sugarlands Releases Moonshine Marking NASCAR's 75th Year

The Sugarlands NASCAR 75th Anniversary Moonshine will make its debut at Bristol Motor Speedway during the Food City Dirt Race weekend April 8-9. It will be available at the Sugarlands 360 Bar inside the track that weekend and also available for purchase at retailers nationwide while supplies last. Moonshine

Cava Sales Hit High in 2022

D.O. Cava reports record sales in 2022 with 249 million bottles sold worldwide, the highest numbers the regulatory board has seen in its history. "Despite the economic hardships experienced in 2021, 2022 was a year of recovery that yielded very positive results," said D.O. Cava president,