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...The French luxury group LVMH said last week that revenue from wine and spirits had fallen 10 per cent so far this year, amid a big drop in US cognac sales....
...Then again, Sunny isn’t meant to mature like a vintage wine....
...It wasn’t until 1969 that you could grab a bottle of wine off the shelf (and only in a government-run liquor store)....
...Mexican food, tequila and mezcal may be the height of fashion but the country’s wine has yet to have its moment in the sun....
...As RBC Capital Markets has noted, Americans buying liquor moved a bit upmarket at the height of the pandemic, when they had more money in their pockets because there were fewer alternatives for their leisure...
...The wine industry is also undergoing fundamental changes because of the pandemic....
...Wall Street had forecast a 2 per cent decline in revenue across Citi’s business lines as fees from fixed income trading normalised after reaching record highs at the height of the pandemic....
...One Thursday in Crown Heights, a new live music venue and café called Wild Birds is already packed by 6pm. They opened in March 2020 and sustained themselves through the winter selling plants and wine....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 29 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...And the stars play along: Sharon Stone briefly dates and breaks up with Larry via their secretaries; David Duchovny, at the height of his X-Files fame, hilariously sends up rumours surrounding his sexuality...
...Last year it completed a £50m refit of lounges at JFK airport including automatically cooled and oxidised wine and a bartender to mix New York-themed cocktails....
...Weingarten said it had received 100 per cent of July rent from supermarkets, 99 per cent from banks and 98 per cent from liquor and wine stores, but only 75 per cent from discount clothing stores, 67 per...
...Wine sales in grocery and liquor stores were also up by a third in the week ending April 4; three-litre boxes were up 82 per cent, though there are signs the pace has slowed as early panic buying eases up...
...By that point, the Chinese liquor was already a staple at official parties and dinners....
...In 2020 it reached new heights, thanks to an investor push into cloud-based software companies....
...It decided to add a hit of marijuana to its portfolio of beer, wine and liquor brands. It has invested about C$5.2bn ($3.9bn) in Canopy since 2017....
...The liquor is then poured from a height into a chilled glass lined with a splash of vermouth. “The long pour is theatrical and spectacular....
...Mass-market beer makers like Molson Coors have grappled with shifting tastes, as more consumers opt to reach for wine, liquor or a craft beer made by smaller companies over mainstream brews....
...But it was fun — the liquor’s not bad.” Follow on Twitter: @hancocktom...
...Regular readers of Lunch with the FT like it when there is liquor on the bill — much less abstemious, much less corporate than daily life....
...The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How To Stop It , by Steven Clifford The shocking thing about chief executive pay is not that it has reached such giddy heights — somewhere between 300 and...
...To paraphrase an old proverb, you can lead the bourse to liquor but you can’t make it partake....
...There is local wine from Napa and Sonoma but London Pride beer is also on tap behind the bar. Birch, too, strikes a balance between the two cultures....
...Prices and demand for art works, jewellery and fine wines have been soaring to new heights, but Sotheby’s has struggled to keep up with arch-rival Christie’s in recent years....
...When Bill Clinton as US president met his South African counterpart Nelson Mandela in 1998, he did so at Vergelegen, the wine estate near Cape Town still owned by Anglo....
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