Another entry in the Stupid Marketing Hall of Fame
I can just imagine the scene. The bigwigs at the Geom distillery in Kazakhstan are sitting around a conference hookah, dreaming up some clever marketing scheme for their new Baiterek Vodka. “How about...
View ArticleFinger Lakes tourism free app available
New things keep popping up in Finger Lakes wine country — restaurants, B&Bs, grape products, even wineries themselves. Now, a new bit of technology will help would-be visitors get more out of the...
View Article‘Gansett beers hitting the Capital Region
Narragansett Beer, currently available outside of its New England home turf in southern New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina, is stretching its availability by adding the Capital Region....
View ArticleFollowup on Five Wives Vodka flap
A few days ago, I reported that the Idaho Liquor Control Division has banned the sale of Utah-made Five Wives Vodka because its title may offend Mormons whose religion once allowed polygamy (“Idaho...
View ArticleCuomo’s alcohol summit promises big things
Gov. Andrew Cuomo • From The Associated Press ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state government will put the promotion of beer, wine and liquor made in New York “on steroids” to boost jobs and help the...
View ArticleJack Daniel’s Sinatra Select begins slow rollout
Sinatra, and Jack, in concert. Frank Sinatra’s long love affair with blues, broads and booze, as he often phrased it, was well chronicled during the iconic singer-actor’s lifetime. Now, 14 years after...
View ArticleAn unnecessary wine center ‘pauses’ to reorganize
The Finger Lakes Wine Center may be no more. The downtown Ithaca venue that would have been celebrating its second anniversary next week has closed. Or, as board vice president Fred Bonn, who also is...
View Article‘The Last Friday’— Different things to different people
Pssst. Yeah, you. Over here. I hate to mention it, but we’re only 20 days from the end of the world as we know it. Friday of next week will be December 21, 2012, when the infamous Mayan calendar ends...
View ArticleNew Bacardi ad revives the history of the Cuba Libre
Through all sorts of societal changes and over several generations, the Cuba Libre has endured as a very popular cocktail. The recipe is a simple one: Light rum, Coca-Cola and a squeeze of lime....
View ArticleBeer Institute reveals new ingredient labeling plan
Consumers who like to know what sorts of ingredients they’re putting in their bodies when they eat and drink have been frustrated for years by brewers who don’t want to reveal that sort of information....
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