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Hard Lemonade Tops Sales Growth in Beer, RtD Martinis Lead Spirits: Drizly

Hard lemonade experienced the highest year-over-year sales increase last month within the beer category, Drizly said. It’s showing strong growth against other hard alternatives as well; in April 2023, hard lemonade doubled its share within the specialty beer/alternatives subcategory year-over-year, moving from 2% to 4%. The top-selling SKU

Cava Sales Rose 4.58% in 2022

That's according to DO Cava, which called 2022 a year of recovery for the region after the economic difficulties of 2021. Foreign sales accounted for 69% of DO's total sales. Germany remained the top consumer, followed by the US, Belgium and the UK.

West Coast DtC Sales Falling Off a Cliff

The numbers from Community Benchmark aren't pretty. In the first quarter of this year, data from 523 wineries in California and Oregon show: * Overall YTD DTC sales are down -7.9% vs. 2022. (+7.7% vs 2021) * Visitors YTD are down -21.3% vs. 2021 (+31.6% vs.

Light Lagers Overtake Hard Seltzers on Drizly in March

For the first time since the summer of 2019, light lager share surpassed hard seltzer on Drizly in March 2023. Last month, light lager held 20% share of the beer category and hard seltzer held just 17%; in March 2022, hard seltzer held 19% share while light lager trailed with

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 trends

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,

Montana House OKs Sunday and Monday Sales of Spirits

The Montana House of Representatives passed, 83-16, and sent to the state Senate a bill to allow sales of distilled spirits products from state agency liquor stores on Sundays and Monday. Montana is one of seven states in the country that prohibits the retail sale of distilled spirits on Sundays.