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As many of you know we’re one of the organizers of the U.S. Drinks Conference. This will be the fourth year that we’ve held the event and is scheduled for Oct. 12 and 13 in New York.  Check out the website (www.USDrinksConference.com) for more details on...

Having spent a necessary few days detoxifying from Tales of the Cocktail, I once again raise the rhetorical question of why we so rarely see spit buckets at spirits events, when they’re de rigueur at wine tastings?I attended this year’s event in the company of...

We're back from the American Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla,Washington (our friends in Europe get a kick out of the name) which Constance I attended. This is the third year for the event which attracted 300 attendees from the ranks of bloggers, wineries and...

     We had a bittersweet goodbye for Sam Harrigan this week that unfortunately Jeff and I couldn't attend in person (but we were there in "spirit").  Sam Harrigan who's been with us for two years and helped create and shape our social media...

Thanks to Gabriella and Ryan Opaz for organizing a wonderful evening of tasting Austrian wines and promoting the European Wine Blogger's Conference which is being hosted by the Austrian Wine Marketing Board in Vienna Oct. 22-24 this year.The Opaz's have been a driving...

We just got back from Peru visiting with Johnny Schuler and Brent Kallop of Pisco Porton.  They are on a mission to make Pisco a significant category and Pisco Porton a significant brand in the U.S. spirits market.For those of you unfamiliar with it Pisco has a...

What U.S. importers expect from prospective suppliers...new post on BATblog http://ping.fm/Xkb69

     One of the things we get asked for is help for foreign suppliers to find U.S. importers.  More often than not the supplier doesn't have an accurate understanding of the U.S. Drinks market and the radically different situation that exists...