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...Moutai sells China’s best-known version of baijiu, a strong alcoholic spirit that is a fixture of both official and informal entertaining nationwide....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...It wasn’t until 1969 that you could grab a bottle of wine off the shelf (and only in a government-run liquor store)....
...The domination of spirit brands on the nation’s most-viewed television show comes as liquor makers look to sustain a post-Covid sales boom that has also boosted their stock prices....
...To many drinkers, the idea of adding water to liquor defeats the purpose, or even seems like a rip-off....
...Her bar, Leyenda, in Brooklyn, is one of the most respected bars in the city that specialises in Latin American spirits like tequila and mezcal....
...The agave-spirit enthusiast created a 41-page spirits menu, my favourites of which include La Paloma de Oaxaca: tequila blanco, mezcal joven, lime, grapefruit soda and worm salt....
...But Delhi, one of India’s megacities (population more than 18mn) is running short of places to buy wine and spirits. Liquor shops are closing left and right....
...In that respect, the pugnacious spirit of the old CSFB might prove very useful to the new CSFB, after all. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...In the beginning there was mezcal, an agave-based spirit produced in Mexico for more than 400 years....
...She’s from Mexico City and is the world’s first female certified maestra tequilera, or master distiller....
...Real GDP per capita grew almost ten-fold in the 30 years from 1990 while wages in the cities quintupled....
...They could transition fairly seamlessly to this consumer model and to having greater productivity and to unleashing what people call the kind of animal spirit of the consumer economy....
...And that generosity of spirit is more than apparent at the first stop on our tour, the farmers’ market in São Paulo Square....
...Among the biggest fallers on Friday were Kweichow Moutai, the world’s largest liquor producer whose spirits are a mainstay of official festivities in China, which dropped 4.4 per cent....
...The spirit of Watergate will be missing from the televised hearings, writes Edward Luce....
...In February this year Uber acquired alcohol ecommerce platform Drizly in a deal worth $1.1bn, a move that brought on board alcohol retailers operating in 1,200 US cities, each with their own individual liquor...
...In mainland Chinese markets, liquor makers sold off after local news outlet Caijing reported that an executive at an unnamed spirits producer would attend a regulatory meeting about policing the industry...
...There was a wider spirit of rebirth around Kobe during this period and Inoue had his sights set on fundamental change....
...Its spirit-driven nature represents the strength, grit and intensity of the city....
...Jemima KellyIt’s a state of cattle ranches and cowboy hats, small government and frontier spirit. Audio clipMr. Gannon!...
...“New York companies are buying up residential homes, so everyday Philadelphians are being outbid by LLCs and corporations, people who have been here for generations....
...We finish the meal with a spirit, such as pear-flavoured liquor, and smoke cigarettes....
...the strength of today’s spirit) and, by 1743, average consumption in England has been estimated at more than two gallons per person annually....
...Cocktails include a Moonlight Spritz made with lychee liquor and prosecco, an Umeshu Negroni and a gin and tonic infused with oolong, pineapple and lime....
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