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Sen. Adam Schiff, after meeting Canadian officials and North Coast winegrowers, warned that Canadian consumers switching to competing wines could make restoring the market difficult even once the trade dispute ends. U.S. wine exports to Canada fell 78% in 2025, from $460 million to $103 million per USDA figures, dropping Canada from the top U.S. export market at 36% in 2024 to No. 3 at 12%, the Wine Institute reported.
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Pernod Ricard posted a smaller-than-expected sales decline in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, with India up 19% helping offset weakness in the United States and China.
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RNDC has asked a bankruptcy judge to approve the sale of its non-debtor joint ventures in Kentucky and Michigan for about $50 million. The wine and spirits distributor says the deals would help fund its Chapter 11 plan ahead of an Oct. 29 financing deadline.
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New York could make a major change to where consumers buy alcohol, per Wine Industry Advisor.
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The vodka + ade category, also known as hard sports drinks, could pull in as much as half a billion dollars in sales by 2027, according to Scott Scanlon, Circana's EVP of BevAl.
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New Zealand wine tariffs into India will fall from 150% to either 50% or 25% over ten years under the free trade agreement, which includes a most-favored-nation clause. New Zealand Winegrowers calls the Indian market largely untapped.
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Five distributor leaders discussed shifting portfolio mixes and the cushion of beyond-beer offerings during a panel at the NBWA Annual Convention in Orlando, where returning beer to growth was framed as the priority.
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Sapporo USA is centering its US strategy for 2027 on a single brand, Sapporo Premium Beer, and aims to reach 10 million cases by 2030.
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Proximo Spirits has stopped distillery operations at its Great Jones Distilling Co. site in Manhattan. The visitor centre has also been closed until further notice.
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India's Directorate of Revenue Intelligence is investigating whether Pernod Ricard and Diageo's United Spirits improperly claimed reduced import duties on bulk Scotch whisky, after tariffs on certain Scotch products were cut this year from 150 percent to 75 percent. The probe, which has included site visits to corporate offices, turns on whether bulk concentrates brought in for local bottling qualify for the lower rate meant for finished bottled spirits; both firms say they are cooperating, and an adverse finding could trigger back-tax demands.
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Molson Coors' UK turnover fell 4.2% to £1.56bn in the year to 31 December 2025 and gross profit dropped 7.8% to £283.5m, according to accounts filed with Companies House. The brewer named the shift from on-trade to off-trade, where margins are typically lower, as a principal risk to profitability, while pre-tax profit held steady at £40.17m.
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The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency is investigating an April incident in which a large quantity of caustic soda flowed from Diageo's Cardhu Distillery into the Knockando Burn, a tributary of the River Spey, with as many as 3,000 creatures including salmon, trout and eels potentially killed. Diageo called the incident "deeply regrettable," said it has updated controls in place, and is in discussions on a long-term plan to support regeneration in the area; SEPA said it will consider enforcement action once its investigation is complete.
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A Connecticut judge ruled Monday that the companies behind the Josh Cellars wine brand cannot introduce their former president's alleged litigation funding deals at an upcoming trademark royalties trial. The judge found the agreements irrelevant to the ex-president's $4 million contract and fiduciary duty claims against his former employers.
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Drinks Intel surveyed leading bartenders on where cocktails are heading, flagging savoury and umami-led serves (29% of listed cocktails at Asia's 50 Best Bars use a savoury ingredient, 21% in Europe), the resurgence of martinis and other classics, and a nuanced take on moderation that includes lower-ABV drinks and miniature serves. The Vandal Agency's Claudine Ben-Zenou called mini serves, led by mini-martinis often poured alongside a full-size option, "the most commercially significant shift of the year," while several operators stressed local identity and social experience over copying global trends.
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Germany's Destatis agency estimates a 2026 wine harvest of eight million hectolitres, up 5% on last year, while the German Wine Institute forecasts the vintage will fall below 2025's 7.7 million hectolitres and run 20% under the ten-year average of 8.7 million. Destatis, which puts white wine at 70% of the crop, said summer heat and drought left grapes relatively small and the yield 4% below the 2020-2025 average.
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Whole Foods Market's 2027 trends report flags eight food and beverage predictions, led by bitter flavors, consumer interest in origins and "Beautrition." Other picks include a rise in Japanese comfort foods and beans as a center-of-plate item.
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A Wine Industry Advisor opinion piece argues that wine advocates should be ready to defend the drink against what it calls assaults on symbols of the West.
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NOAA puts an 83 percent chance that Pacific surface temperatures in the final quarter of 2026 run up to 2.5 degrees Celsius above average, which would make this the strongest El Niño since 1950, with sea surface temperatures already 2.3 degrees above average. Winemakers interviewed by SevenFifty Daily report sharply different effects by region: more rain for southern California and Chile, drier and hotter conditions in South Africa, and softened impacts in Australia following heavy winter rains, with Concha y Toro's Marcelo Papa saying cloud cover can delay harvest by as much as two weeks.
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